{"id":101268,"date":"2020-01-23T00:19:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/in-just-4-hours-googles-ai-mastered-all-the-chess-knowledge-in-history"},"modified":"2020-01-23T00:19:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T08:19:36","slug":"in-just-4-hours-googles-ai-mastered-all-the-chess-knowledge-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/in-just-4-hours-googles-ai-mastered-all-the-chess-knowledge-in-history","title":{"rendered":"In Just 4 Hours, Google\u2019s AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-just-4-hours-googles-ai-mastered-all-the-chess-knowledge-in-history3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chess isn\u2019t an easy game, by human standards. But for an artificial intelligence powered by a formidable, almost alien mindset, the trivial diversion can be mastered in a few spare hours.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper, Google researchers detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, developed <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1712.01815.pdf\">\u201csuperhuman performance\u201d<\/a> in chess, taking just four hours to learn the rules before obliterating the world champion chess program, Stockfish.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, all of humanity\u2019s chess knowledge \u2013 and beyond \u2013 was absorbed and surpassed by an AI in about as long as it takes to drive from New York City to Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Chess isn\u2019t an easy game, by human standards. But for an artificial intelligence powered by a formidable, almost alien mindset, the trivial diversion can be mastered in a few spare hours. In a new paper, Google researchers detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, developed \u201csuperhuman performance\u201d in chess, taking just four hours [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}