To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

She starts the game convinced she can beat her own chess bot in under five minutes — and then the bot plays the Cow Opening. At first it looks wrong, but move by move the position gets weirder, faster ...

In this video, Swedish Grandmaster Pia Cramling plays an AI chess bot modeled after her own playing style and career. The bot is based on her peak rating of 2550 and reflects how she played during her ...

David Reid does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Computer science student Jack Luo is "the kind of person who'll build you a custom AI tool just because you mentioned a problem, then take you on a midnight ride to watch the city lights". At least ...

A new social network called Moltbook has been created for AIs, allowing machines to interact and talk to each other. Within hours of the platform launching, the AIs appeared to have created their own ...

Filippo Menczer receives funding from Knight Foundation, National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. We were able to identify these ...

A new comedic play and a 20-year neurology study explore what we can do to prevent dementia and cognitive decline.

The moment you make your first AI music track can feel quite magical, especially if you are as profoundly unmusical as me. I cannot hold a note or even reliably maintain a beat, yet in 30 seconds I ...

Over the last few centuries, behavioral psychologists have documented all kinds of ways of modifying our actions and the ...

The potential of microrobots is enormous. These miniature objects can be designed to carry out actions within the body, such as sensing biomarkers, manipulating objects like blood clots or delivering ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a challenge. Although playing chess on a computer against an AI has been a ...