Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. YOU ARE NEVER going to beat the world’s best chess programs. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Despite all the industry hype and genuine advances, generative AI ...

The world’s top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI’s o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and xAI Corp.’s Grok 4 are ...

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 ...

When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had recently read Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking, a memoir of the ...

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 ...

OpenAI’s o3 defeated Elon Musk’s Grok 4 at chess Magnus Carlsen delivered biting commentary on the quality of Grok's logic Grok 4 made repeated blunders, while o3 played steady The AI chess tournament ...