Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...
A series dramatizes the 1997 chess match between a world champion and an IBM computer, a precursor of modern anxieties about artificial intelligence. By Dylan Loeb McClain It is rare that chess grabs ...
The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life but that ‘there’s still a lot of work to be done.’ The company’s first human patient said the technology has changed his life ...
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 ...
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 ...