Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted ...

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 ...

Robots haven't taken over the world yet...but this is a good start GOOGLE has created an artificial intelligence so clever it can teach itself to become a “master” of chess. Normally AI learns based ...

Not directly pertaining to any PC game you might be playing, but worth a mention as you may be getting flattened by similar systems in the not-too-distant future. As reported on Chess.com, the world ...

Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.… Robert Caruso, the infrastructure architect who ...

SINGAPORE – In a first for the tournament, the International Chess Federation (Fide) and Singapore Chess Federation (SCF) on Sept 12 announced tech giant Google as the title sponsor of the upcoming ...

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.