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 ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...
The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...
The field of artificial intelligence has seen rapid advancements in recent years, with a new generation of AI programs, known as large language models, taking center stage. While these models are ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Warnings over the perils of artificial intelligence arms races have made ...