Project Maia
A human-like neural network chess engine
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Dans l’actualité | Microsoft India Paradigm Shift Podcast
Paradigm Shift, Episode 3: Pitches and Pawns
From analyzing every cricketing shot in the book, to infusing intelligence on the chessboard, to reimagining how fans engage with the players and the game–AI is shaping the next best move in sports.
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Maia, a human-oriented AI for chess
A neural network engine that captures human decisions and playing style in chess.
Dans l’actualité | TWIML
The Future of Human-Machine Interaction with Dan Bohus and Siddhartha Sen
Today we continue our AI in Innovation series joined by Dan Bohus, senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Siddhartha Sen, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
Dans l’actualité | WIRED
A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them. It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can now…
Dans l’actualité | The Next Web
This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them
Maia’s algorithms find mistakes that players should work on. Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15…
Dans l’actualité | Engadget
Researchers built an AI that plays chess like a person, not a super computer
They trained Maia on millions of online games played by humans. We mere mortals haven’t truly been competitive against artificial intelligence in chess in a long time. It’s been 15 years since a human has conquered a computer in a…
Dans l’actualité | Lichess Blog
Introducing Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
We’re happy to announce Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine that was 100% trained on Lichess games. Maia is an engine built in the style of Leela that learns from human games instead of self-play games, with the goal…
Research at Microsoft 2020: Addressing the present while looking to the future
Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…
The human side of AI for chess
| Reid McIlroy-Young, Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg, et Siddhartha Sen
Editor’s note: The section “Modeling individual players’ styles with Maia” has been updated as of July 12, 2021. As artificial intelligence continues its rapid progress, equaling or surpassing human performance on benchmarks in an increasing range of tasks, researchers in…