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Queen awards CBE to Cypriot AI expert - Cyprus Mail
Cyprus Mail
British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher of Cypriot descent Demis Hassabis has been included in the 2018 New Year Honours' list. The 41-year-old researcher, who was born in London to a father from Famagusta and a mother from Singapore, has been ...
KCF Young Stars program goes global - ChessBase
KCF Young Stars program goes global - chessbase.com
Wauwatosa-Brookfield-Elm Grove: Family movie and health and wellness - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Chess Tournament. Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation in conjunction with the Wauwatosa Catholic Schools is hosting a chess tournament beginning at 9 a.m. Jan. 13. at 1500 Wauwatosa Ave. For additional information or to pre-resister, head over to ...
Why Negative Thinking Works - Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
Grandmaster chess player Garry Kasparov contemplates a move in a match against grandmaster Fabiano Caruana during the final day of the Grand Chess Tour at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in St. Louis on August 18, 2017. (Photo: Bill Greenblatt/AFP ...
Chess's New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight
After just four hours of this tabula rasa training, it clobbered the top chess program, an engine called Stockfish, winning 28 games, drawing 72 and losing zero. These results were described last month in a paper posted on arXiv, a repository of ...
Chess's New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight
Sergey Karjakin, the Russian world championship runner-up, said he'd pay “maybe $100,000” for access to the program. One chess commentator joked that Russian president Vladimir Putin might help Karjakin access the program to prepare for next year's ...
Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn? - GovernmentCIO Magazine
GovernmentCIO Magazine
GovernmentCIO Magazine
A supercomputer toppling a grandmaster at chess is old hat, with IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at the end of the last millennium. DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaGo beat the world champion in 2016 at the even more complex Go ...
Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn? - GovernmentCIO Magazine
GovernmentCIO Magazine
GovernmentCIO Magazine
A supercomputer toppling a grandmaster at chess is old hat, with IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasperov at the end of the last millennium. DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaGo beat the world champion in 2016 at the even more complex Go ...
Loretta on her way to obtaining her PhD - Witbank News
Witbank News
Witbank News
Loretta Magagula (29) is pursuing a PhD in Medical Biochemistry at the University of Cape Town within the Biomedical Translational Research Initiative (BTRI). Loretta received a financial leg-up to pursue her doctorate by ZEISS South Africa. This year ...
Chess’s New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight
Chess's New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight
Chess is an antique, about 1500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudgi…
Chess’s New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight
Chess is an antique, about 1500 years old, according to most historians. As a result, its evolution seems essentially complete, a hoary game now largely trudgi…
Learning music and playing chess might not make you any smarter, according to 3 decades of research - Business Insider
Business Insider
Researchers reviewed 35 years of studies and found training your brain with activities like chess, music, or puzzles might not actually impact your intelligence. Music experts have strong memories for notes, but practicing music hasn't shown a direct ...
Valley Girls: Meet the Ladies of Switzerland's Engadine Valley - W Magazine
W Magazine
W Magazine
Soon they may be able to venture downstairs to Flohr's personal suite, with its Gio Ponti desk, curly bison rugs, and works by Abdoulaye Konaté, Marcel Dzama, and Candida Höfer—or, if they are really well behaved, into the indoor pool or private ...
Featured Chess Set: January 2018 | World Chess Hall of Fame - World Chess Hall of Fame |
10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Brain Sharper - Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
Big Think (blog)
A Canadian study showed that people who spoke two languages processed information more economically, using up less brain circuitry. Plus, being multilingual will likely make you more open to other cultures, making travel more fun. 6. Play chess ...
What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom? - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The two tech giants are supposedly wary of Apple's influence over the deal and worried about Broadcom's reputation for cutting costs rather than investing in new technologies, which could interfere with Qualcomm's 5G research. In a research note ...
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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Montana Standard
Montana Standard
Montana Standard
As researchers began to ask computers to solve complex, real-world problems like diagnosing diseases or translating Russian, it turned out that many of these complex problems could only be solved in theory but not in practice. The time and memory ...
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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Motley Fool
Motley Fool
To understand why such a simple game has confounded AI research for decades, it's helpful to contrast Go with chess. For decades, it was said that computers would be intelligent if only they could play chess. Then, half a century after Alan Turing ...
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