Google’s Game-Playing A.I. Made Big Leaps This Week. Here’s What It Tells Us About A.I.’s Future. Google’s Game-Playing A.I. Made Big Leaps This Week. Here’s What It Tells Us About A.I.’s Future. -- Google’s A.I. Has Made Some Pretty Huge Leaps This Week -- When DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence defeated Lee Sedol, the Korean Go champion, for the first time last year, it stunned the world. -- Google’s latest AI efforts push beyond the limitations of their human developers. Its artificial intelligence algorithms are teaching themselves how to code and how to play the intricate, yet easy-to-learn