Artificial Intelligence: Google's DeepMind learned without human input - Content Loop

Google's DeepMind Artificial Intelligence AlphaGo Zero recently attained an important milestone--the Artificial Intelligence (AI) taught itself how to play the strategy game Go without any human interaction and was able to beat the world's best Go players. The ability to reach this level of performance with human input is a significant step forward in the maturation of AI. Over the past several years, AI has made significant progress in a wide variety of areas such as image and speech recognition, drug discovery, and algorithmic trading. In most of these cases, the AI relies on vast existing data sets and some degree of human engagement. A long-standing ambition of AI researchers has been to create algorithms that do not rely on already existing data sets nor the need for human input.