AlphaGo Zero AI teaches itself to play Go better than any human, or other AI, ever

Google's DeepMind team that specializes in machine learning and artificial intelligence has created an AI called AlphaGo Zero that is able to teach itself the Chinese strategy game Go. Not only that, it can teach itself so effectively that it is able to beat the previous iteration of AlphaGo that successfully beat the world's best human players. The previous AlphaGo was taught to play by inputting the data of how the best human players in the world played certain moves, effectively creating a compendium of the best players in the world. AlphaGo Zero however, according to the Guardian, learnt completely differently, by being given the rules to Go, and being left to its own devices. Obviously, it started by making some pretty foolish and ill-advised moves, but quickly learnt which moves were more likely to lead to victory, and which to failure.