Google AI Taught Itself Chess In 4 Hours, Came Up With Moves Never-Before-Seen In Chess History

The technology world is split when it comes to the future of AI. Is it going to unlock a whole new level of comfort and innovation, or is it going to destroy humanity? This next exhibit about the potential AI holds (good or bad) will literally take your breath away -- and may also help you make up your mind. And it all started off with a chess game. In a hundred game chess marathon, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero, an AI computer program, became the greatest ever chess player in the game's history by annihilating a competing AI system called Stockfish 8. Google's DeepMind merely instructed AlphaZero on the rules of the game, and asked it to learn the game of chess by playing against itself.