In what scientists are dubbing the first man-versus-machine poker championship,two professional poker players beat a University of Alberta poker-playing software program called Polaris in Vancouver.

When it comes to simple competitive games, chimps make a monkey out of humans and make a genius out of John Forbes Nash Jr. Chimpanzees playing each other in a simple matching game outperformed human ...

IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it's been working on for more than five years. The company unveiled its Project ...