Shall we play a game? mccool/Alamy A single artificial intelligence can beat human players in chess, Go, poker and other games that require a variety of strategies to win. The AI, called Student of Games, was created by Google DeepMind, which says it is a step towards an artificial general intelligence capable of carrying out … Read more
A suspiciously high number of people guess the Wordle word on their first try Emre Akkoyun/Shutterstock Thousands of people are probably cheating to solve the daily word-guessing game Wordle on the first try – and many more players remain surprisingly loyal to their favourite words. Wordle, now owned by The New York Times, challenges people … Read more
These robots use magnets to cling to the ceiling University of Chicago Swarms of small robots rolling around on the ceiling can reconfigure rooms by moving hanging curtains or lights around – or store and then drop small objects such as keys and balls to humans below. “When you look up at the ceiling, it … Read more
An AI has learned to deceive human opponents in the war-themed board game Stratego, which involves imperfect information and a huge number of possible game scenarios Technology 1 December 2022 By Jeremy Hsu The Napoleonic-themed board game Stratego has a huge number of possible game states Rod Zadeh/Shutterstock An AI can defeat expert human players … Read more
In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook’s parent company Meta outplayed humans Technology 18 October 2022 By Jeremy Hsu AIs are getting good at many different games Shutterstock / PicMy Two AIs built by Meta can beat expert human players at the classic first world war … Read more
BEIJING, Feb. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has changed winter sports “fundamentally,” International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Sunday, hours before the closing ceremony of the Games. It would leave the world with a legacy of a new global winter sports, Bach told China Media Group (CMG). … Read more