{"id":74248,"date":"2017-12-07T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:38","slug":"googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI mastered chess in 4 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robots are coming for your \u2026 chess game.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s AI, AlphaZero, developed a \u201csuperhuman performance\u201d in chess in just four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity\u2019s entire history of chess in one-sixth of a day \u2014 and then figured out how to beat anyone or anything.<\/p>\n<p>After being programmed with the rules of the game (not the strategy) AlphaZero played 100 games against Stockfish, the world champion chess program. AlphaZero won 25 playing as white (which has first-mover advantage) and three games playing as black. The last 72 games were a draw with AlphaZero recording no losses and Stockfish recording no wins.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/12\/07\/googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/12\/07\/googles-ai-mastered-chess-in-4-hours\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robots are coming for your \u2026 chess game. Google\u2019s AI, AlphaZero, developed a \u201csuperhuman performance\u201d in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity\u2019s entire history of chess in one-sixth of a day \u2014 and then figured out how to beat anyone or anything. After being programmed with the rules of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74248","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\/74248","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74408,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74248\/revisions\/74408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}