Staring at the Mona Lisa provides a few minutes of enjoyment and contemplation, but were the famous portrait on the wall of your living room, you’d soon find yourself wishing she did more than just ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

The deciding game Friday between chess legend Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Junior ended in a draw. The result meant that the six-game series pitting man against machine ended in a 3-3 deadlock.

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Growing up, many of us were told that playing computer or video games was a waste of time. However, when it comes to training artificial intelligence, not only is it not a waste of time, but it could ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Google's AlphaZero program, after teaching itself chess in a matter of hours, beat the world's greatest computerized ...