Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own

Quanta Magazine. 2017: "A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world — itself. 19 months after dethroning the world’s top human Go player, the computer program AlphaGo has smashed an even more momentous barrier: It can now achieve unprecedented levels of mastery purely by teaching itself

Quanta Magazine. 2017: "A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world — itself. 19 months after dethroning the world’s top human Go player, the computer program AlphaGo has smashed an even more momentous barrier: It can now achieve unprecedented levels of mastery purely by teaching itself