VentureBeat

DeepMind’s AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence ...
MIT Technology Review

Alpha Zero’s “Alien” Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI

The latest AI program developed by DeepMind is not only brilliant and remarkably flexible—it’s also quite weird. DeepMind published a paper this week describing a game-playing program it developed ...
gizmodo

AlphaZero Annihilates World’s Best Chess Bot After Just Four Hours of Practicing

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 ...
ExtremeTech

AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI

AlphaZero stands to upend not merely the world of chess, but the whole realm of strategic decision making. If that doesn't give you pause, it probably should. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...
Mashable

This neural-net powered AI is way better at chess than anyone

Competitive and casual chess players alike now have a new foe. In addition to computers, there's a new AI platform called AlphaZero that can totally beat us all. SEE ALSO: An AI wrote the script for ...
Graham Cluley

Four hours after being taught the rules of chess, AlphaZero became the strongest player the world has ever seen

This is all completely fine. Really, it’s fine. It’s normal. There’s nothing to worry about. I’m going to keep telling myself this until I start to believe it. Earlier this year, Google’s Deepmind ...
NextBigFuture

AI AlphaGo Zero started from scratch to become best at Chess, Go and Japanese Chess within hours

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 ...
VentureBeat

DeepMind's AlphaZero beats state-of-the-art chess and shogi game engines

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 ...