Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their ...

Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis ...

Scholars Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton pioneered reinforcement learning long before it became a key tool in AI.

In 1997 the world chess champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by an IBM computer system called Deep Blue. It had defied all expectations, exploring some 300 million possible moves in one second.

Some AI will even attempt to cheat their way out of losing in games of chess. This poor sportsmanship is documented in a preprint study from Palisade Research, an organization focused on risk ...