In a high-stakes chess match, the grandmaster doesn’t win by brute force; they win by observing, anticipating, and exploiting ...

Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and ...

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While Nintendo Switch 2 boasts extensive compatibility with its predecessors' games, there are a few games that won't make ...

Invented by Leonardo Torres in 1920, the Torres calculating machine is a machine that solves essential addition, subtraction, ...

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo was born on 28 December 1852, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, in a stone house (see the lower ...

Builder.ai grew more forthcoming about the human factor, but the company came unstuck over its finances. It appointed a new ...

Syberia Remastered, the revamped version of the classic adventure, is set to launch in late 2025. The game will remain available on PlayStation 5, Xbo ...

A spectator would approach and sit opposite the automaton to play a game of Chess. The automaton would then come to life, picking up the pieces and making moves. To add further surprise to that ...

In 1779, a mechanical contrivance by Wolfgang von Kempelen, famous for the mechanical Turk chess-playing automaton, could form simple words. By 1939, Bell Labs could do even better speech ...

The game looks very different a full year after launch, with a third faction, the Automaton-bombing Democracy ... It’s one of the ways we want to give a chess piece to the community, and we ...

The Mechanical Turk 2.0—With a Twist Today’s AI hype recalls the infamous 18th-century Mechanical Turk: a supposed chess-playing automaton that actually had a human hidden inside. Modern AI ...