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BOARD GAMES have long fascinated artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers. They have clear rules, well-defined playing fields and objective winners and losers. This makes them perfect “sandpits” for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...

Open-world games are all the rage right now for obvious reasons. Players love how much fun it is to explore a massive sandbox ...