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Chess is often considered a game for intellectuals and is comprised of numerous strategies and plays. Humans would spend years or even decades mastering the multiple intricacies of the ancient pastime. Google’s artificial intelligence, AlphaZero just mastered every aspect of it in four hours. According to experts, this could allow the AI to run the entire universe.
The researchers responsible for the AI recently published a paper detailing their findings with regards to AlphaZero’s phenomenal rate of learning. Basically, the AI took all of the knowledge and strategies about chess that humanity had accumulated over the centuries, absorbed them, and then proceeded to surpass them.
AlphaZero was so good at the game after a handful of hours, in fact, that the researchers note how it displayed “superhuman performance” as it dismantled the notoriously difficult chess program, Stockfish. While it may take some more tests to determine how well a human player would fare against the AI, at this point, it would be safe to say that the algorithm is unbeatable.
In reaction to the news, several chess experts including the CEO of chess science website Chessable and noted chess researcher, David Kramaley concluded that AlphaZero now reigns supreme. He was especially impressed with how the AI managed to make plays that no human could possibly match, The Telegraph reports.
“We now know who our new overlord is,” Kramaley quipped. “The games AlphaZero played show it can calculate some incredibly creative positional bombs, the depth of which are far beyond anything humans or chess computers have come up with. It will no doubt revolutionize the game, but think about how this could be applied outside chess. This algorithm could run cities, continents, universes.”
English grandmaster Simon Williams was of the same mind. He is of the opinion that Google’s AI had now officially taken over the world of chess.
“AlphaZero and DeepMind then went on to dominate chess, eventually solving the game and finally enslaving the human race as pets,” Williams said.
