A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes--on Purpose - AI Summary

The AI chess program, known as Maia, uses the kind of cutting-edge AI behind the best superhuman chess-playing programs. Alpha Zero broke from conventional AI chess programs by having computers learn, independent of any human instruction, how to play the game expertly. For chess, Alpha Zero is fed board positions and moves generated in practice games, and it tunes its neurons' firing to favor winning moves, an approach known as reinforcement learning . The result is a chess program capable of playing in a more human way. Well before that, AI that can predict and mimic human behavior could have immediate applications in chess and other games.