Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

Photo credit: eloiroudaire77 via Pixabay. Article by John Timmer. Ars Technica – March 13, 2026. Research article: Machine Learning.

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during training. But then some odd things happened as people started identifying Go positions that would lose against relative newcomers to the game but easily defeat a similar Go-playing AI. […]

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