ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Many consumers see AI as science fiction, but companies see business opportunities -- such as AlphaGo, a program developed by a unit of Google.

Lee’s victory, which comes after three consecutive losses in the five-game series against Google’s AlphaGo, proves that the program is far from invincible.

The program took an unassailable lead in the five-game Go series against its human competitor, marking a watershed moment in machine learning.

After beating the world’s No. 1 Go player in two games this week, Google’s artificial intelligence division DeepMind’s next challenge could be StarCraft.

The service, in partnership with optical character recognition specialists Abbyy, brings translation to printers.

Winning the second game of the series, the artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, has taken a commanding lead over world champion Lee Sedol.

The Go world champion, Lee Sed-ol, has been beaten by artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, developed by Google's DeepMind.

The biggest test of DeepMind’s AlphaGo program comes this week, when it competes with South Korea’s Lee Se-dol, a master of the board game Go.

In order to encourage “landmark breakthroughs” in creation of artificially intelligent machines, IBM and the nonprofit XPrize announced Wednesday a $5 million competition for AI developers.

Human wit may have to compete against machine intelligence.

Roman Yampolskiy, leading AI researcher at the University of Louisville, says its time to start planning for self-aware machines that don't like us very much.

While experts believe Google will partner with an established carmaker, the advertised jobs provide a window into how much hardware the company may build.

"We believe in paying our taxes, and we want to be seen to be paying the right amount of tax,” Matt Brittin told a parliamentary panel Thursday.

Despite agreeing to pay $185 million to cover 10 years of British taxes, the U.S. company Thursday will face a parliamentary committee.

In a major milestone for the development of autonomous vehicles in the U.S., a transport regulator said robots can meet the definition of drivers.

The founder of DeepMind said the company's AlphaGo AI program would challenge the world's No. 1 Go player, Lee Sedol, over a series of five games in Seoul.

While both Microsoft and the U.K. startup confirmed the deal, which will give Microsoft access to artificial intelligence expertise, they did not mention the cost.

Investors sent the stock of Google’s parent company skyward on Tuesday after it blew past Wall Street forecasts and shed light on its “Other Bets” — which include self-driving cars.

The settlement of about $185 million for the period since 2005 has been greeted with bouquets by the Conservative Party and brickbats by the Labour Party.

The immensely complex ancient Chinese board game has long been considered the most challenging one for a computer to master.

This comes after decades of sci-fi predictions and DARPA's success with a prosthetic arm.