AI 101: All The Ways AI Could Make or Break the Future

In December 2017, AlphaZero, a chess-playing, artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Google, defeated Stockfish 8, the reigning world champion program at that time. AlphaZero calculates around 80,000 moves per second, according to The Guardian. Yet, out of 100 matches, AlphaZero won 28 and tied 72. Stockfish's open-source algorithm has been continually tweaked by human input over the years. The New Yorker reports that coders suggest an idea to update the algorithm, and the two versions are then pitted against each other for thousands of matches to see which comes out on top. Google claims that AlphaZero's machine learning algorithm had no human input beyond the programming of the basic rules of chess.