Creating Artificial Intelligence: DeepMind’s AlphaZero
May 11, 1997, a special day for Artificial Intelligence. It was on that day that for the first time a computer program named Deep Blue was able to defeat a reigning chess world-champion under tournament conditions.
A lot has changed for AI since then, in a good way. The past several years have enjoyed massive strides and breakthroughs in AI research. Machines are becoming more intelligent and, more importantly, through all of this research we are beginning to gain a clearer understanding of what human intelligence really is. Only with a concrete understanding of intelligence can we actually build intelligent machines.
DeepMind has been at the forefront of the AI revolution.
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies is a British Artificial Intelligence company. In 2014 they were bought by Google for their world-leading expertise in AI. Ever since they first started, they’ve been taking the world’s most ambitious cracks at solving AI.
Their latest creation is also their most impressive: AlphaZero
AlphaZero is an AI system that taught itself, from scratch, how to master the games of chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go. To prove AlphaZero’s excellence, it was matched against a world-champion in each game. AlphaZero emerged victorious.
