AI doomsters believe that AI will quickly become better at “everything.” That may not be true, but what if it is? What does that mean most immediately for the arts, where AI slop is already permeating ...

For years, the game of chess has been seen as a litmus test for how far AI can go against the human intellect. When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat reigning Chess world champion Garry Kasparov in ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) loves to cheat. When matched against a chess bot, an OpenAI model preferred hacking into its opponent's system to winning the game fairly, according to a recent study.

Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian grandmaster shared on X on July 10 showed. ChatGPT resigned the match. “I ...

We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...

One of my favorite techniques for stimulating my brain is to engage in logic puzzles and games. I've been dabbling more in AI on the side as another stimulating activity. I recently came across a ...

In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that's quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

In many parts of the AI community, people are used to thinking about artificial intelligence as applied to new and modern forms of game theory. For example, some of the most tangible rollouts of AI ...

ChatGPT volunteered to play a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 to a game of chess and came to regret it after the eight-bit chess engine from the age of Disco Fever and the introduction of the Force did better ...

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.

Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted ...