The robots are coming for your … chess game. Google’s AI, AlphaZero, developed a “superhuman performance” in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity’s entire history of chess ...

AI doomsters believe that AI will quickly become better at “everything.” That may not be true, but what if it is? What does ...

The AlphaZero program developed by Google and DeepMind took four hours of playing against itself to create chess knowledge beyond any human or other computer program. It could beat any person and beat ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

The field of artificial intelligence has seen rapid advancements in recent years, with a new generation of AI programs, known as large language models, taking center stage. While these models are ...