Google’s AlphaGo AI can teach itself to master games like chess

Google's DeepMind team has already advanced its AlphaGo AI to dominate Go without human input, but now the system is clever enough to master other board games without intervention. Researchers have developed a more generalized system for AlphaGo Zer...

Google and Blizzard invite you to train AI with ‘StarCraft II’

Google, apparently tired of trouncing human players at Go with its DeepMind AI, set its computer intelligence up with Blizzard's video game Starcraft II last fall. It seems that was more than a stunt: Today, Google announced it has built a whole rese...

Google DeepMind Learns to Walk and Feels the Pain

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence algorithms can be used to drive lots of different types of experiments, and now it’s recently been used to teach a CGI character to walk all on its own. However, this is the Internet, and that just can’t be good enough all on it’s own. We must have more.

Fortunately, we have resourceful and clever folks like Andreas Almström to tune things up a bit. He couldn’t just sit there and watch that stick figure stumble about on its quest for locomotion, no. He had to give it the soundtrack it deserves, and let us hear the pain and agony this digital creation went through as it learned to amble about.

Now, isn’t that so much better than the original? You be the judge:

High-tech solutions top the list in the fight against eye disease

"The eyes are the window to the soul," the adage goes, but these days our eyes could be better compared to our ethernet connection to the world. According to a 2006 study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, the human retina is capable of tra...