chess
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Neuralink Livestreams Paralysed Patient Playing Video Games With His Mind
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. Using Neuralink’s brain implant, which was inserted in January, the man now…
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Hans Niemann’s War With Chess.com Over Cheating Scandal Comes to an End
One of the greatest chess dramas of the 21st century hasn’t ended with the bang of a chess-cheating vibrator hitting the floor but with the whimper of an arbitration agreement. On Monday, Chess.com and young “chess prodigy” Hans Niemann reached a settlement that will end the chess player’s $100 million lawsuit in exchange for allowing…
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Meta’s ‘Cicero’ AI Trounced Humans at Diplomacy Without Revealing Its True Identity
Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997, humanity has watched, haplessly, year after year as our code based underlings vanquish us in ever more complicated games. There’s a catch though. While AI bots increasingly excel at trumping humans in head-to-head adversarial board…
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Controversial Chess Player ‘Likely Cheated’ in Over 100 Online Chess Games, According to Investigation
The fiery cheating scandal consuming the chess world for the past month appears to be coming to a close and it looks like 19-year-old grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann has found himself in checkmate.