It beat Stockfish in chess, Elmo in shogi, and AlphaGo Zero in Go. Its AI backbone and algorithms worked in real time. Pre-planning for every possible move, after training against itself ...

The Absolute Zero Reasoner draws inevitable comparisons to AlphaZero, an earlier AI system that achieved superhuman performance in games like chess and Go through self-play. While both systems ...

The next big developmental step came in 2017: Google researcher and Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis applied the self-learning artificial intelligence (AI) program "Alpha Zero" to chess.