‘Creative’ AlphaZero leads way for chess computers and, maybe, science | Sean Ingle
by Sean Ingle from on (#44TT0)
Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov likes what he sees of computer that could be used to find cures for diseases
Garry Kasparov is not only humanity's greatest ever chess player but its highest-profile victim of artificial intelligence. His loss to IBM's super computer Deep Blue in 1997 made global headlines and left him feeling bitter and, well, blue. Yet there is a warm glint in his eye when he talks about AlphaZero, the game-changing chess programme that took just four hours to teach itself to become the strongest in history.
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