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Saturday, December 23, 2017

Robot taught itself never seen before chess moves in hours

Will robots one day destroy us? It’s a question that increasingly preoccupies many of our most brilliant scientists and tech entrepreneurs.

For developments in artificial intelligence (AI) — machines programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — are poised to reshape our workplace and leisure time dramatically.

This year, a leading Oxford academic, Professor Michael Wooldridge, warned MPs that AI could go ‘rogue’, that machines might become so complex that the engineers who create them will no longer understand them or be able to predict how they function.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Skynet, scary thought.

Anonymous said...

As AI goes, it is relatively simple to figure out a winning chess move without being taught. Every beginning chess player learns moves that work, and moves that are traps.