Google DeepMind CEO says his passion for chess led to his career in AI
Demis Hassabis, a childhood chess prodigy, said his experience with the game afforded him his first brush with AI. He was ...
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Chess AI, Old School
People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess ... The code is in JavaScript, but the approach struck us as old school. However, it is interesting to watch ...
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The Chess Computer From 1912
Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...