The Robot-Human Alliance

June 11, 2017 4:39 p.m. ET Humans have been beaten by a machine again. Last month the world’s top-ranked player of Go, an abstract strategy board game, lost to Google’s AlphaGo program. This marked a major achievement for machine learning, given the game’s complexity. What might be more important, though, went less noticed: Around the same time, some of the world’s top Go players began competing alongside the AlphaGo program in human-machine teams. The players learned new strategies by studying AlphaGo’s previous games and said working with the... To Read the Full Story Subscribe