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Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer - Hindu Business Line

Wed, 12/13/2017 - 10:11

Hindu Business Line

Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer
Hindu Business Line
As FIDE Master Mile Klein noted on chess.com, it's comparable to “a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it ...

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Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness - Baltimore Sun

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 14:07

Baltimore Sun

Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness
Baltimore Sun
... Dr, Sklar co-founded the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She also served as chair of the department of genetics and genomic sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...

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Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 12:13

Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...

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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 07:00

ExtremeTech

AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...

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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 06:33

ExtremeTech

AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...

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Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference - Quartz

Tue, 12/12/2017 - 06:11

Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference
Quartz
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, 41, whose team dropped new research showing that its world champion Go-playing AI had also mastered chess and shogi, stepped up to a microphone after a talk to rebut comments from NYU professor and ex-Uber AI guru Gary ...

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DeepMind Has Simple Tests That Might Prevent Elon Musk's AI Apocalypse - Bloomberg

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 14:13

DeepMind Has Simple Tests That Might Prevent Elon Musk's AI Apocalypse
Bloomberg
Whether it goes far enough to ensure safety remains debated. In other research DeepMind conducted with OpenAI, a non-profit AI group backed by Musk, an AI software program learned to satisfy a human teacher, rather than pursuing the best strategy ...

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4 lessons learned from training successful traders - Yahoo Finance

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 13:05

Yahoo Finance

4 lessons learned from training successful traders
Yahoo Finance
Our overriding takeaway is that the development of trading expertise is not so different from the development of elite performance in other fields, such as athletics and chess. It follows from a sustained developmental process. Unfortunately, aspiring ...

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Deutsche Bank Sees Huge Potential in Blockchain - Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 09:49

Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)

Deutsche Bank Sees Huge Potential in Blockchain
Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)
The fact that CHESS is in good enough shape to continue functioning at a decent level strengthens further the case for blockchain application. Deutsche Bank considers this emerging technology “one of the most innovative developments in recent years ...

Google News
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Google's AlphaZero AI mastered chess in just four hours - Infosurhoy - Infosurhoy

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 09:33

Google's AlphaZero AI mastered chess in just four hours - Infosurhoy
Infosurhoy
Google's latest artificial intelligence, AlphaZero, has defeated one of the best chess programs in the world after learning the game from scratch in just four hours. The 'superhuman' AlphaZero AI played 100 games against rival computer program ...

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In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History - Science Trends

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 09:26

Science Trends

In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History
Science Trends
“It's a remarkable achievement, even if we should have expected it after AlphaGo,” says Garry Kasparov about AlphaZero. “We have always assumed that chess required too much empirical knowledge for a machine to play so well from scratch, with no human ...

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Fake news: A world of pixel-perfect forgeries is coming - The Straits Times

Sun, 12/10/2017 - 15:00

Fake news: A world of pixel-perfect forgeries is coming
The Straits Times
The images are jerky, as dashcam footage often is: A car travels down an American highway, with green grass at the side of the road and leaves on the branches of passing trees. At first glance, the video seems utterly mundane - but its very ...

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Is it possible to boost your intelligence by training? - Salon

Sat, 12/09/2017 - 20:01

Salon

Is it possible to boost your intelligence by training?
Salon
Scientists achieved astonishing results when training a student with a memory training program in a landmark experiment in 1982. After 44 weeks of practice, the student, dubbed SF, expanded his ability to remember digits from seven numbers to 82 ...

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Falconry Research Project: database by UAE researchers shows ubiquity of predatory bird - The National

Sat, 12/09/2017 - 01:59

The National

Falconry Research Project: database by UAE researchers shows ubiquity of predatory bird
The National
From whimsical 19th century Japanese drawings to 4,000-year-old Mongolian rock art, Dutch chess pieces and Qajar tableware from Iran, the history of man's relation to the falcon is one of the oldest recorded love stories. It is even carried in your ...

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The Weekend "Planet Earth Report" --Google's CIA Origins, Hubble's 'Time-Machine' Successor, Destructive Bitcoin ... - The Daily Galaxy (blog)

Sat, 12/09/2017 - 01:05

The Daily Galaxy (blog)

The Weekend "Planet Earth Report" --Google's CIA Origins, Hubble's 'Time-Machine' Successor, Destructive Bitcoin ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
Some of the research that led to Google's ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online. The intelligence community hoped that the nation ...

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Fake news: A world of pixel-perfect forgeries is coming - Financial Times

Fri, 12/08/2017 - 23:05

Financial Times

Fake news: A world of pixel-perfect forgeries is coming
Financial Times
The images are jerky, as dashcam footage often is: a car travels down an American highway, with green grass at the side of the road and leaves on the branches of passing trees. At first glance, the video seems utterly mundane — but its very ...

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Alpha Zero's “Alien” Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI - MIT Technology Review

Fri, 12/08/2017 - 14:22

MIT Technology Review

Alpha Zero's “Alien” Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI
MIT Technology Review
Hassabis speculates that because Alpha Zero teaches itself, it benefits from not following the usual approach of assigning value to pieces and trying to minimize losses. “Maybe our conception of chess has been too limited,” he said. “It could be an ...
Google's DeepMind AI Becomes One Of The Best Chess Players In The World In Just Four HoursHuffPost UK
Google AI teaches itself 'superhuman' chess skills in four hoursNaked Security
'Superhuman' Google AI claims chess crownKenya Broadcasting Corporation
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The Geopolitics of Poland's “Three Seas Initiative” - Center for Research on Globalization

Fri, 12/08/2017 - 10:22

Center for Research on Globalization

The Geopolitics of Poland's “Three Seas Initiative”
Center for Research on Globalization
For Washington, Poland and their Three Seas Initiative are merely a chess play in a larger geopolitical game. The creation of Poland's costly LNG terminal and its strategy to become a central European gas hub via the Three Seas Initiative was not an ...

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Google's DeepMind AI Becomes One Of The Best Chess Players In The World In Just Four Hours - HuffPost UK

Fri, 12/08/2017 - 09:25

HuffPost UK

Google's DeepMind AI Becomes One Of The Best Chess Players In The World In Just Four Hours
HuffPost UK
Not content with absolutely thrashing humanity at Go, Google's DeepMind AI has now turned its attention to chess, and as expected it has put us all to shame. The specialist AlphaZero program was able to beat one of the world's best chess programs a ...
Google AI teaches itself 'superhuman' chess skills in four hoursSecurity Boulevard
AlphaZero AI beats champion chess program after teaching itself in four hoursTrend News Agency
'Superhuman' Google AI claims chess crownKenya Broadcasting Corporation
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Google AI teaches itself 'superhuman' chess skills in four hours - Security Boulevard

Fri, 12/08/2017 - 08:09

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Google AI teaches itself 'superhuman' chess skills in four hours
Security Boulevard
Human chess grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen tells the BBC that he's “always wondered how it would be if a superior species landed on earth and showed us how they played chess.” Well, move aside, ugly, giant bags of mostly water: now we know, because ...
'Superhuman' Google AI claims chess crownKenya Broadcasting Corporation
AlphaZero AI Beats Champion Chess Program after Teaching Itself in Four HoursІnsіdеr Cаr Nеws

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