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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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) ...

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 ...