When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

We live in a world where AI companies like OpenAI and Google are constantly looking for new ways to pit their AI models against each other. One of the most recent attempts to measure how top AI models ...

Checkmate: OpenAI's o3 swept Musk's Grok 4 in an AI chess showdown.

Since 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat world champion and chess legend Garry Kasparov in a six-game match, chess players have accepted that machines are stronger at chess. We have taken some comfort ...

In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that's quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the ...

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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 ...