Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

DeepMind has applied its mastery of games to a more serious business: the foundations of computer science. The Google subsidiary today unveiled AlphaDev, an AI system that discovers new fundamental ...

However, Fantasy Flight vowed that the game would return and showed off its next planned expansion – Winds of Exchange – which would be released as part of its relaunch. The next expansion is already ...

AI programs usually master either information-perfect games like chess or information-imperfect games like poker, but "Student of Games" is a general algorithm that can master both types. When you ...

Can we trust the algorithms behind dating apps with our hearts? In this episode of ITK: Behind the Screens, our host Niamh Adkins (@niamhadkins) sits down with expert Liesel Sharabi to learn how these ...

The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year the company used a version of its ...

**This article was taken from The WIRED World in 2016--_our fourth annual trends report, a standalone magazine in which our network of expert writers and influencers predicts what's coming next. Be ...

Slavin, a noted game developer, notes that entire city neighborhoods are being remade to resemble computer chips. And we’ve barely even noticed. Forget Rise of the Planet of the Apes? it’s Rise of the ...