The technology world is split when it comes to the future of AI. Is it going to unlock a whole new level of comfort and innovation, or is it going to destroy humanity?
This next exhibit about the potential AI holds (good or bad) will literally take your breath away -- and may also help you make up your mind. And it all started off with a chess game.
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In a hundred game chess marathon, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero, an AI computer program, became the greatest ever chess player in the game's history by annihilating a competing AI system called Stockfish 8. But that's not even the half of it.
What's truly frightening (or promising?) about AlphaZero's achievement is how it taught itself to play chess in just four hours. That's right, just 240 minutes!
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Google's DeepMind merely instructed AlphaZero on the rules of the game, and asked it to learn the game of chess by playing against itself. That's very clever, isn't it? But, in this process, AlphaZero not only learned thousands of years of chess knowledge and game tactics within hours but it also went on to devise previously unseen chess moves.?
Yes, in just four hours, an AI program surpassed accumulated human wisdom of a thousand or so years. Just let that thought sink in for a moment.
Excited or terrified? (Oh yes, you're right in thinking that AlphaZero is like an AI sibling of AlphaGo)
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