One of my favorite techniques for stimulating my brain is to engage in logic puzzles and games. I've been dabbling more in AI on the side as another stimulating activity. I recently came across a ...

OpenAI’s o3 defeated Elon Musk’s Grok 4 at chess Magnus Carlsen delivered biting commentary on the quality of Grok's logic Grok 4 made repeated blunders, while o3 played steady The AI chess tournament ...

We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...

The first time a computer beat a human chess master happened in 1997 when IBM Deep Blue defeated champion, Gary Kasparov. AI systems have advanced in their ability to play chess to the point where no ...

Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15 years. It’s ...

People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently, ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

The robots are coming for your … chess game. Google’s AI, AlphaZero, developed a “superhuman performance” in chess in just four hours. Essentially, the AI absorbed humanity’s entire history of chess ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research unit today detailed MuZero, a deep learning system that can master Go, chess and other games even if it’s not told the playing rules. MuZero’s ...

Talk about bad sportsmanship — and at the hands of a robot, no less. An AI-powered machine equipped with the gift of game strategizing (but definitely not good manners) has reportedly injured a 7-year ...

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