Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...

New research published in Machine Learning shows pattern learning is not enough to train AI to tackle games—and abstract ...

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during ...

A few months after demonstrating its dominance over the game of Go, DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI has trounced the world’s top-ranked chess engine—and it did so without any prior knowledge of the game and ...

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 ...

In this video, we explore the fascinating matches between Stockfish and AlphaZero, highlighting their innovative gameplay. The video is structured as follows: 0:00 Intro 1:01 Game 1 5:58 Game 2 10:34 ...