AI software could now beat humans at chess by reading the rule book

Google's Artificial Intelligence can now teach itself to beat humans at complex games without using knowledge given to it by human developers. AlphaZero, the game-playing AI created by Google sibling DeepMind, is able to master games like chess, shogi and Go just by reading the rule book. The'superhuman' computer program teaches itself to play these games with no prior knowledge except each game's rules. A study, led by American Association for the Advancement of science, shows that the program was able to teach itself the intricacies of each game until mastered. Google's AlphaZero has defeated one of the best chess programs in the world after learning the game from scratch in just four hours.