JumpStar, a self-play-trained Chinese Checkers engine built on a C++20 rules/search core, a neural policy/value model, and Monte Carlo tree search, is now available on iPhone and holds the CCERL-2P10-…
Skild AI announced a post-training result in which its S1 robotics foundation model taught itself to play soccer through physical self-play, competing against previous versions of itself in NVIDIA's I…
Google researchers and academic collaborators described Dream RSI, a method that lets an AI system improve its own strategy for guiding scientific discovery by simulating past research history rather …
A developer behind DATAMIMIC argues that coding agents which generate their own test fixtures and expectations can produce self-consistent but wrong results, because the same misinterpretation of a re…
Google DeepMind's VP of Technology said AI's next major step is recursive self-improvement, in which systems generate their own experience and data rather than relying on human-generated training data…
Vishal Maini, a former DeepMind spokesperson, said the company prohibited staff at all levels from publicly discussing human extinction risks from AI, according to an account of the policy. The restri…
An anonymous Hacker News post claims that an AI model solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, and argues that September 8th should be celebrated as 'AGI Day.' The…
A developer's chapter in a Turing Award series profiles Edsger Dijkstra, the 1972 ACM Turing Award winner whose shortest-path algorithm still underpins modern navigation, chip design, robotics, and ga…
Korean grandmaster Shin Jinseo defeated the AI engine KataGo in a three-game exhibition match, winning games two and three after losing the first. The match was the first serious human-versus-AI conte…
Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, became the first human to win an official series against the AI engine KataGo, defeating it 2-1 with an 11.5-point victory in the final game on Tuesday.…
Google DeepMind has acquired a minority stake in Fenris Creations, the rebranded studio behind EVE Online, as part of a $120 million management buyout from Pearl Abyss, to use the game's 20-year-old v…
Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, to prototype new gameplay experiences, building on 15 years of AI research in games. The collabora…
The intelligence of AI agents comes from the feedback loop of generate, evaluate, update, and repeat, not from a single model generation, according to an essay by Yoko Li. The loop has always existed,…
Arb'a Baloot, a free, ad-free digital version of Saudi Arabia's national card game Baloot, has been released with an AI opponent trained using reinforcement learning over millions of self-play rounds.…
Richard Sutton's 2019 essay 'The Bitter Lesson' argues that in artificial intelligence, general approaches that scale with computational power outperform domain-specific methods in the long run, as ex…
Stanford University professor and Human-Centered AI Institute director Dr. Fei-Fei Li told Andrew Huberman on the Huberman Lab podcast that AI can enhance human intelligence but cannot replicate the d…
Move 37, the famous fifth-game move by DeepMind's AlphaGo against Lee Sedol in 2016, is now seen as the moment AI changed everything, and similar breakthrough moments are occurring across the field, a…
David Silver, founder of AI lab Ineffable Intelligence, has pledged to donate all proceeds from any future sale of his company to charity, following a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuati…
In March 2016, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, widely considered the world's strongest Go player, 4-1, a watershed moment for AI in the game. The cultural impact was initially muted, but…
A cultural shift toward "vibes-based thinking" is replacing probabilistic and frequentist reasoning in how researchers and experts assess catastrophic risks, according to an analysis of contemporary r…