Talk about bad sportsmanship — and at the hands of a robot, no less. An AI-powered machine equipped with the gift of game strategizing (but definitely not good manners) has reportedly injured a 7-year ...

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In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...

Five years ago, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, stood the Eden Musee, noted for its wax figures of history’s horrible episodes and its automatic checker player. This machine, mathematically ...

The story of the confrontation between man and machine in chess is not just a plot for science fiction. It is a real, dramatic saga, where human intuition, emotions and experience competed with ...