Why AI Chess Champs Are Not Taking Over the World

At one time, the AI that beat humans at chess calculated strategies by studying the outcomes of human moves. In October 2017, the DeepMind team published details of a new Go-playing system, AlphaGo Zero, that studied no human games at all. Instead, it started with the game's rules and played against itself. The first moves it made were completely random. After each game, it folded in new knowledge of what led to a win and what didn't.