DeepMind's Go playing software can now beat you at two more games

DeepMind's AI Go master has taught itself new tricks. The latest version of the machine learning software, dubbed AlphaZero, can now also beat the world's best at chess and shogi – a Japanese game that is similar to chess but played on a bigger board with more pieces. DeepMind, a sister company to Google, claims that it is the first machine-learning system that can learn to do more than one task with superhuman ability. AlphaGo made headlines in 2016 when it beat the world's best players at a game long thought too hard for computers to crack. Then came AlphaGo Zero, which not only out-played AlphaGo but taught itself to do so without ever having seen a human play the game.