Google AI beats professional players at StarCraft II

DeepMind was founded in London in 2010 and was acquired by Google in 2014. It now has additional research centres in Edmonton and Montreal, Canada, and a DeepMind Applied team in Mountain View, California. DeepMind is on a mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. If successful, the firm believes this will be one of the most important and widely beneficial scientific advances ever made. The company has hit the headlines for a number of its creations, including software it created a that taught itself how to play and win at 49 completely different Atari titles, with just raw pixels as input. In a world first, its AlphaGo program took on the world's best player at G, one of the most complex and intuitive games ever devised, with more positions than there are atoms in the universe - and won.