Google creates AI that can teach itself and isn't 'constrained by the limits of human knowledge'

Google has developed a computer program that teaches itself. The company's AI division, DeepMind, has unveiled AlphaGo Zero, an extremely advanced system that managed to accumulate thousands of years of human knowledge within days. DeepMind says it's the most powerful program it has created, because it isn't "constrained by the limits of human knowledge". AlphaGo Zero is the latest evolution of AlphaGo, the first computer program to ever defeat a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Unlike previous versions of AlphaGo, however, Zero was only provided with the rules of the game. It had to learn how to play all by itself, whereas the others were trained using data from thousands of games played by humans.