Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours

Jon Ludvig Hammer, the Norwegian grandmaster, described AlphaZero's strategy as'insane attacking chess' which was coupled with'profound' positional play. The DeepMind team eventually want to use the algorithm to solve big health problems. They believe that the programme could come up with cures for major illness in a matter of days or weeks, which would have taken humans hundreds of years to find. The company has already begun using AlphaZero to study protein folding and has promised it will soon publish new findings. Misfolded proteins are responsible for many devastating diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis.