Bye bye, Stockfish!

Google's AI beats the strongest chess engine in the world after learning how to play in just 4 hours. No opening book, no tablebases, no nothing! It learned everything by itself from scratch, except the basic rules.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JzuiBaOzHk

Oh my gud one of the biggest multinational technology companies in the world managed to win some games against a free open source chess software, how could that happen?

thepawnistheword, it may sound meaningless to most people. But you need to understand how Alpha Zero managed that to understand the importance of this event. This marks a new era in chess and maybe in History.

@slow_flow I know what it means, an artificial neural net has been proven to be very capable to learn and successfully perform a complex task, which will have a lot of applications in the future, and it represent a great technology advancement. But I just find funny how some people is freaking about it.

And, anyway, yes, that's meaningless to me.