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Driverless Cars Driven By Rules of Chess, AI Making Smarter Moves
Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider
If you are interested in AI, you likely would want to know about chess since the game has been used to help derive many of the AI techniques that we use today for all kinds of other endeavors.
Chess is a deceptively easy game because the nature of the rules are relatively simple and readily described, and yet playing games successfully can be quite challenging (when I say successfully, I mean winning at chess).
Chess Offers Cognitive Challenges Helpful To AI Progression
Humans have been competing against each other since perhaps the Middle Ages to see who can be the best at chess.
It has always been hoped that we might be able to figure out how humans play chess so that we could then improve how humans can further play chess. Furthermore, chess playing tactics and strategies can be used to reveal how humans think overall, along with extending these same approaches to other areas, including for other game playing and for many non-game playing real-world activities.
A black-box approach to analyzing how to best play chess can be undertaken by studying step-by-step what transpires in chess matches. In that manner, you really don’t know anything about what is happening in the…
