Breakthrough In Artificial Intelligence?

Demis Hassabis the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind - DeepMind

The Telegraph: DeepMind's AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical 'turning point' for AI

DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as ‘turning point’ in history.

The computer system amazed the world last year when it mastered the game of chess from scratch within just four hours, despite not being programmed how to win.

But now, after a year of testing and analysis by chess grandmasters, the machine has developed a new style of play unlike anything ever seen before, suggesting the programme is now improvising like a human.

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WNU Editor: The ability to develop a platform for a program to learn is the ultimate goal for AI researchers, and it looks like they are now getting a glimpse on that it is possible.