[Matthew Lui’s] Giraffe is a chess playing computer, but unlike other common ... [Matthew] did the work as part of his Master’s degree program. His paper covers how Giraffe’s algorithm ...

A new computer program taught itself superhuman mastery ... which used reinforcement learning to master not just one challenging game, but three -- chess, go and shogi. AlphaZero started with ...

According to Wired it took AlphaZero just four hours to become a chess champion, two hours for shogi, and eight hours to defeat the world's greatest Go-playing computer program. It was big news ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat ... “to develop a program that played chess by thinking like a human, perhaps even learning the game as a human does.” ...

Bernstein's program clearly followed Shannon's "Type ... Bell Laboratories programmers Thompson and Joe Condon released a custom chess playing computer dubbed "Belle." Belle was an amazingly ...

players use a program to explore the results of moves. Still, it is the human who controls the game. An advanced chess player marries human intuition with a computer's ability to remember and ...

A computer program built by Google now leads in a best of five contest against the world’s top player in a very complex board game ... Gary Kasparov at chess. Go is much more complicated.