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DeepMind has yet to find out how smart its AlphaGo Zero AI could be

"Perhaps the most interesting thing about AlphaGo Zero, though, isn’t how fast it was able to do what it did, or with such efficacy, but also that it ultimately didn’t even achieve its full potential," reports TechCrunch. "DeepMind CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis explained on stage at Google’s Go North conference in Toronto that the company actually shut down the experiment before it could determine the upper limits of AlphaGo Zero’s maximum intelligence." “We never actually found the limit of how good this version of AlphaGo could get,” he said. “We needed the computers for something else.” Hassabis said that DeepMind may spin up AlphaGo Zero again in future to find out how much further it can go, though the main benefit of that exercise might be to help teach human AlphaGo players about additional, “alien” moves and stratagems that they can study to improve their own play. PLUS: The October issue of Games magazine includes "A God of Go: AlphaGo Crosses the Next Frontier of Artificial Intelligence"