Artificial intelligence (AI) in sport may sound like something from a science fiction movie. But unbelievable footage has captured the moment an AI pilot overthrows three human champions in a fierce drone race. Drone racing world champion, Alex Vanover, was among the trio of professionals thrashed by AI as it won an impressive 15 of 25 trials in a Swiss-based study. The so-called'Swift' technology mastered speeds of over 62mph (100kmh), with a reaction time that was 120 milliseconds faster than humans on average. Its impressive track record is a milestone for scientists at the University of Zurich, who sought to move this pioneering technology beyond board games.

An artificial intelligence has beaten eight world champions at bridge, a game in which human supremacy has resisted the march of the machines until now. The victory represents a new milestone for AI because in bridge players work with incomplete information and must react to the behaviour of several other players – a scenario far closer to human decision-making. In contrast, chess and Go – in both of which AIs have already beaten human champions – a player has a single opponent at a time and both are in possession of all the information. "What we've seen represents a fundamentally important advance in the state of artificial intelligence systems," said Stephen Muggleton, a professor of machine learning at Imperial College London. French startup NukkAI announced the news of its AI's victory on Friday, at the end of a two-day tournament in Paris.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a part of our daily lives -- from language translation to medical diagnostics and driverless cars to facial recognition -- it's making more of an impact on industry and society every day. But what exactly is AI? Simply put, AI is a technology that replicates human intelligence through computers, systems or machines. This is a fairly broad description, however, and different people have different ways of interpreting it. Whatever its description, the concept of AI isn't new and has been around since at least 1950. That was when Alan Turing, an influential computer scientist and mathematician, speculated about AI as'thinking machines'. Turing went on to develop the'Turing test', which identifies artificial intelligence based on a machine's ability to do reasoning puzzles with human-like capabilities.

A few months ago, I sent my dad the article 20 Top Lawyers Were Beaten by Legal AI in a Controlled Study, which (as the title suggests) discusses a study on how AI can be applied to the field of law, and how it performs against professional lawers. An implication of this article is the potential to replace lawyers with AI for many common legal needs, such as contract review or writing wills. It's an interesting article and application of AI, which I spend a lot of time thinking about. It might seem pretty innocent that I shared it with my dad, and it would be, except that my dad is a lawyer. Yes, I was kind of trying to get a rise out of him (it's all affectionate, I promise).

San Francisco (CNN Business)People are great at arguing. But a project from IBM shows that computers are getting quite good at it, too. On Monday, Harish Natarajan, a grand finalist in 2016's World Debating Championships, faced off against IBM's Project Debater -- a computer touted by the company as the first artificial-intelligence system built to meaningfully debate humans. Natarajan won, but the computer demonstrated the increasingly complex arguments that AI is starting to make. Project Debater, which has been in the works since 2012, is designed to come up with coherent, convincing speeches of its own, while taking in the arguments of a human opponent and creating its own rebuttal.

When the arrow appeared next to the birdcage, I finally understood what my partner was trying to say. The game was a clone of Pictionary--I had to guess the phrase based on a drawing. My partner had initially depicted a duck next to a cage, plus a hand, and a pond. Only after I asked for another drawing and the arrow was added did I realize the hand was "releasing" the duck, not feeding it. "You win!!!" I was told, after typing in the full answer.

In a major win for artificial intelligence, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo has beat European Go champion Fan Hui in the complex 2,500-year-old Chinese game of Go, touted the official Google blog. A victory in a Go game against a human champion has long been coveted among AI researchers, because the possible moves that a player can take can reach into the quadrillions and beyond. As a result, Go has proven a formidable challenge for artificial intelligence researchers. Microsoft and Facebook, for example, have been working on ways to win in the game over a human champion, but have had no luck to date, according to a BBC news report. Last October, Google DeepMind held a private, closed-door Go match in its London office between its AlphaGo system and Hui.

In a major win for artificial intelligence, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo has beat European Go champion Fan Hui in the complex 2,500-year-old Chinese game of Go, touted the official Google blog. A victory in a Go game against a human champion has long been coveted among AI researchers, because the possible moves that a player can take can reach into the quadrillions and beyond. As a result, Go has proven a formidable challenge for artificial intelligence researchers. Microsoft and Facebook, for example, have been working on ways to win in the game over a human champion, but have had no luck to date, according to a BBC news report. Last October, Google DeepMind held a private, closed-door Go match in its London office between its AlphaGo system and Hui.

In what they called a milestone achievement for artificial intelligence, scientists said on Wednesday they have created a computer program that beat a professional human player at the complex board game called Go, which originated in ancient China. The feat recalled IBM supercomputer Deep Blue's 1997 match victory over chess world champion Garry Kasparov. But Go, a strategy board game most popular in places like China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess. "Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research," said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the British company that developed the AlphaGo program. "It's been the grand challenge, or holy grail if you like, of AI since Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess."

Google's Go-playing software defeated a human champion. Google's Go-playing software defeated a human champion. An artificially intelligent computer system built by Google has just beaten the world's best human, Lee Sedol of South Korea, at an ancient strategy game called Go. Go originated in Asia about 2,500 years ago and is considered many, many times more complex than chess, which fell to AI back in 1997. Google's programmers didn't explicitly teach AlphaGo to play the game. Instead, they built a sort of model brain called a neural network that learned how to play Go by itself. The Google program, known as Alpha Go, actually learned the game without much human help.