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Why Artificial Intelligence Like AlphaZero Has Trouble With the Real World

By Joshua Sokol
February 21, 2018
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The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.

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Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own

By Kevin Hartnett
October 18, 2017
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A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world — itself.

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Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal?

By Michael Nielsen
March 29, 2016
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The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.

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