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    Default Google AlphaZero Bot Masters Chess in 4 Hours!

    Wow, now we're in for some interesting bots. lol.

    In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History



    Chess isn't 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 in chess, taking just four hours to learn the rules before obliterating the world champion chess program, Stockfish.

    In other words, all of humanity's chess knowledge – and beyond – was absorbed and surpassed by an AI in about as long as it takes to drive from New York City to Washington, DC.

    After being programmed with only the rules of chess (no strategies), in just four hours AlphaZero had mastered the game to the extent it was able to best the chess-playing program .

    In a series of 100 games against Stockfish, AlphaZero won 25 games while playing as white (with first mover advantage), and picked up three games playing as black. The rest of the contests were draws, with Stockfish recording no wins and AlphaZero no losses.

    "We now know who our new overlord is," chess researcher David Kramaley, the CEO of chess science website Chessable.

    "It will no doubt revolutionise the game, but think about how this could be applied outside chess. This algorithm could run cities, continents, universes."

    Developed by Google's DeepMind AI lab, AlphaZero is a tweaked, more generic version of , which specialises in playing the Chinese board game, Go.

    DeepMind has been , in the process besting a who fell like dominoes before the indomitable, .

    That victory streak culminated in a in October, in which a new fully autonomous version of the AI – which only learns by playing itself, never facing humans – bested all its former incarnations.

    By contrast, AlphaGo Zero's predecessors partly learned how to play the game by watching moves made by human players.

    That effort was intended to assist the fledgling AI in learning strategy, but it seems it may have actually been a handicap, since AlphaGo Zero's fully self-reliant learning proved in one-on-one competition.

    "It's like an alien civilisation inventing its own mathematics," computer scientist Nick Hynes from MIT told in October.

    "What we're seeing here is a model free from human bias and presuppositions. It can learn whatever it determines is optimal, which may indeed be more nuanced that our own conceptions of the same."

    But things are moving so fast in this field that already the October accomplishment may have been outmoded.
    In their new , the team outlines how the very latest AlphaZero AI takes the self-playing reliance – called reinforcement learning – and applies it with a much more generalised streak that gives it a broader focus to problem solving.

    That broader focus means AlphaZero doesn't just play chess. It also plays Shogi (aka Japanese chess) and Go too – and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it only took two and eight hours respectively to master those games as well.

    For now, Google and DeepMind's computer scientists aren't commenting publicly on the new research, which hasn't as yet been peer-reviewed.

    But from what we can tell so far, this algorithm's dizzying ascent to the pinnacle of artificial intelligence is far from over, and even chess grandmasters are bewildered by the spectacle before them.
    "I always wondered how it would be if a superior species landed on Earth and showed us how they played chess," grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen .

    "Now I know."

    The findings are available at preprint website .





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    I played competition Chess in High School, only lost one game all season.......

























    only played 2.
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    ^^ lol
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    I just watched a couple of the games between AlphaZero & Stockfish.
    Very interesting in the way it played; as it didn't study the chess masters classic moves it made up it's own, like I do, which confuses the hell out of people who study the classic opening moves as AlphaZero did to Stockfish.
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