Alpha Zero, an AI created by Google’s subsidiary DeepMind beat Stockfish 8, the world’s best chess-playing computer program, after having taught itself how to play the game in under four hours. In a ...

It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now play the kind of moves that make a grandmaster’s head spin. But one artificial ...

A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind’s AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing optimization problems and, much to everyone’s surprise, the AI was able to ...

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 ...

Popular chess channels on YouTube have faced temporary restrictions over suspected misconceptions about terms like ‘black against white' (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Computer scientists at Carnegie ...

From a living room in the Croatian town of Krizevci, with a population of 21,000, emerges Agadmator, the world's most popular YouTube chess channel. Close to 750,000 subscribers, 15 million monthly ...

From a living room in the Croatian town of Krizevci, with a population of 21,000, emerges Agadmator, the world's most popular YouTube chess channel. Close to 750,000 subscribers, 15 million monthly ...

*I'm pretty much rooting for the open-source project just on general GNU/LINUX Maker hippie-guy principles, but young Leela is already looking pretty formidable here. *I also like this public-spirited ...