For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

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 ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...

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Booth is a reporter at TIME. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess ...

It’s not a great chess app, but the chess pieces are fun. It’s not a great chess app, but the chess pieces are fun. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators ...

Predictions of AI doom have been wrong before. When reigning World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov accepted a challenge in the 90s to play against IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer, many in the chess ...

The thing that AI models apparently fear the most? A game console released nearly fifty years ago. We are referring, of course, to the inimitable Atari 2600. Last month, the iconic system embarrassed ...

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.