Artificial intelligence is not a living, mortal animal, and can therefore never truly understand what it is to be one ...

Humans are poised to make mistakes because we — even the best of us, in chess or in golf or in any other game — we cannot have the same steady hand as a machine has. Edwards: Does the AI ...

The novelty of a machine taking on a human in a new realm will always attract interest, however people are not still watching computers take on other computers at chess – even if they are now ...

Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king could be on one of 48 squares in the ...