{"id":340792,"date":"2017-12-23T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T10:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-checkmate-humanity\/"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T10:37:31","slug":"prison-planet-com-checkmate-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-checkmate-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Checkmate humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5204513\/Robot-taught-never-seen-chess-moves-hours.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Will robots one day destroy us? It\u2019s a question that increasingly preoccupies many of our most brilliant scientists and tech entrepreneurs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For developments in artificial intelligence (AI) \u2014 machines programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence \u2014 are poised to reshape our workplace and leisure time dramatically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This year, a leading Oxford academic, Professor Michael Wooldridge, warned MPs that AI could go \u2018rogue\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Yes, it\u2019s a concern, but a \u2018historic\u2019 new development makes unpredictable decisions by AI machines the least of our worries. And it all started with a game of chess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">AlphaZero, an AI computer program, this month proved itself to be the world\u2019s greatest ever chess champion, thrashing a previous title-holder, another AI system called Stockfish 8, in a 100-game marathon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5204513\/Robot-taught-never-seen-chess-moves-hours.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, December 22, 2017  at  10:52 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/checkmate-humanity.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/checkmate-humanity.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailDecember 22, 2017 Will robots one day destroy us? It\u2019s a question that increasingly preoccupies many of our most brilliant scientists and tech entrepreneurs. For developments in artificial intelligence (AI) \u2014 machines programmed to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence \u2014 are poised to reshape our workplace and leisure time dramatically. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}