{"id":341454,"date":"2017-12-28T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/self-teaching-chess-algorithms-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:41:45","slug":"self-teaching-chess-algorithms-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/self-teaching-chess-algorithms-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Teaching Chess Algorithms &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\"><strong>This was posted yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From KurzweilAI:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of DeepMind, announced at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2017) last week that DeepMind\u2019s new AlphaZero program achieved a superhuman level of play in chess within 24 hours.The program started from random play, given no domain knowledge except the game rules, according to an arXiv paper by DeepMind researchers published Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t play like a human, and it doesn\u2019t play like a program,\u201d said Hassabis, an expert chess player himself. \u201cIt plays in a third, almost alien, way. It\u2019s like chess from another dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AlphaZero\u2019s \u2018alien\u2019 superhuman-level program masters chess in 24 hours with no domain knowledge \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9lcqy8q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9lcqy8q<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I started programming IBM machines in the late 60s, and at the time there was talk about the possibility of a computer someday beating a human at chess. Almost no one was talking seriously about a computer learning chess on its own, and not merely learning it but mastering it. And mastering it in 24 hours. AlphaZero is mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What will AlphaZero be doing in three years? Five? Will we be carrying AlphaZero around in our pockets? Our brains? Will some other AI be the new king of the hill? Will AlphaZero be regarded as quaintly primitive by then? Will Kurzweil\u2019s 2029 prediction of a computer passing as human in a Turing test arrive earlier than expected?<\/p>\n<p>And what will humans be like in 2029? Here\u2019s a guy working from the other end:<\/p>\n<p>Humans 2.0: meet the entrepreneur who wants to put a chip in your brain \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/gfs543chip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/gfs543chip<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article he cites begins with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bryan Johnson isn\u2019t short of ambition. The founder and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/12\/gary-north\/self-teaching-chess-algorithms-is-this-checkmate-for-humanity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted yesterday. From KurzweilAI: Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of DeepMind, announced at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2017) last week that DeepMind\u2019s new AlphaZero program achieved a superhuman level of play in chess within 24 hours.The program started from random play, given no domain knowledge except the game rules, [&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-341454","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\/341454","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=341454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}