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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Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/11/creative-alphazero-leads-way-chess-computers-science under the title “‘Creative’ AlphaZero leads way for chess computers and, maybe, science | Sean Ingle”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
