
LTI Ph.D. student Yiming Zhang developed Allie, an AI-powered chess bot trained on data from games played by humans. Zhang, shown above playing against Allie, believes training future AI systems to contemplate complex problems could create better agents for use in therapy, education and medicine. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the