#13 Artificial Intelligence
Kopec Explains Software
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How Computers Got Really Good at Chess
The best chess playing program in the world today is rated on a rating scale of about 3300, whereas the best grandmasters like 2800. So they've significantly exceeded the abilities of the best grandmaster. The last few years has been that now they're starting to use techniques from machine learning to try to train even better chess programs. It seemed for a long time that chess was just becoming an uninteresting area of AI because we were just getting better and better programs. But what's made it interesting again now is it seems like using some machine learning techniques, the programs might be able to get even better.
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