OpenAIs Dota 2 bot beats Dendi, a top professional player, in 1v1 midlane at The International. Reinforcement learning in complex video games becomes a research frontier.

Apple launches iPhone X with Face ID and a dedicated Neural Engine. Neural network inference becomes a standard feature on consumer phones.

DeepMind publishes AlphaGo Zero. The system learns Go from random play, no human data required, surpassing all prior versions in 40 days.