A three-time National Chess Champion breaks down what playing chess against LLMs can teach us.

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 ...

Booth is a reporter at TIME. Virtual chess pieces in the data matrix. 3d illustration. Booth is a reporter at TIME. Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities.

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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 ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...

The SenseRobot AI Xiangqi Championship, which was held in Shanghai, was the first Chinese chess competition that has featured ...

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 ...

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 ...