Man vs Machine, A History. Part 2 – AI Quests That Benefit Us All In the first part of this article, we embarked on a quest to follow the progress of computers defeating human champions in several classic games - including Backgammon, Chess and Go - as well as some more modern invention. In this part, we will focus on advances within the last…
Man vs Machine, A History. Part 1 – The Only Winning Move? Since the beginning of the computer age, people have been comparing the capabilities of “electronic brains” to their own. One of the ways to approach this matter is to use an abstraction of a game, specifically one that has a certain set of rules and victory conditions, and see whether…
