![]() ![]() ![]() I feel now I know."Ĭ's interview with Nielsen on the AlphaZero news. As he told, "After reading the paper but especially seeing the games I thought, well, I always wondered how it would be if a superior species landed on earth and showed us how they play chess. GM Peter Heine Nielsen, the longtime second of World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen, is now on board with the FIDE president in one way: aliens. The paper claims that it looks at "only" 80,000 positions per second, compared to Stockfish's 70 million per second. Indeed, much like humans, AlphaZero searches fewer positions that its predecessors. One of the 10 selected games given in the paper. "It approaches the 'Type B,' human-like approach to machine chess dreamt of by Claude Shannon and Alan Turing instead of brute force." "It's a remarkable achievement, even if we should have expected it after AlphaGo," he told. GM Garry Kasparov is not surprised that DeepMind branched out from Go to chess. One person that did comment to has quite a lot of first-hand experience playing chess computers. Hassabis, who played in the ProBiz event of the London Chess Classic, is currently at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in California where he is a co-author of another paper on a different subject.ĭemis Hassabis playing with Michael Adams at the ProBiz event at Google Headquarters London just a few days ago. Part of the research group is Demis Hassabis, a candidate master from England and co-founder of DeepMind (bought by Google in 2014). They chose not to comment to, pointing out the paper "is currently under review" but you can read the full paper here. The program had four hours to play itself many, many times, thereby becoming its own teacher.įor now, the programming team is keeping quiet. That's all in less time that it takes to watch the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. This would be akin to a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it builds a Ferrari. Google headquarters in London from inside, with the DeepMind section on the eighth floor. That means no opening book, no endgame tables, and apparently no complicated algorithms dissecting minute differences between center pawns and side pawns. Put more plainly, AlphaZero was not "taught" the game in the traditional sense. That's right - the programmers of AlphaZero, housed within the DeepMind division of Google, had it use a type of "machine learning," specifically reinforcement learning. Oh, and it took AlphaZero only four hours to "learn" chess. AlphaZero won the closed-door, 100-game match with 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses. Stockfish, which for most top players is their go-to preparation tool, and which won the 2016 TCEC Championship and the 2017 Computer Chess Championship, didn't stand a chance. And maybe the rest of the world did, too.Ī little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated chess engine. ![]()
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