AI Finally Beat the Best Stratego Player in History—and Did It on a Budget
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The Stratego board game is often used as a benchmark for the ability of an AI to think strategically. The game was one of the last in which humans have been even better than the AI. Now a new model called Ataraxos has the world's best human stratego player, Pim Niemeijer, with 15 wins in 20 games, in a defeat
Stratego games challenge AI with hidden information
7 #Rewritten Article: AI Wins Over Human Champion in Game of Stratego In the realm of gaming AI, milestones have been achieved with machines defeating human champions in various classic games. From Deep Blue defeating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997 to AlphaGo surpassing Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, the triumphs have been remarkable. [...]
Ataraxos, a system created by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT, won 15 of 20 games against Pim Niemeijer, considered the most laureate player in Stratego. The team claims that he trained AI for less than $8,000 and that his method also obtained outstanding results in other games with hidden information.
After the chess, Go or poker, a new human bastion has just given way. Ataraxos has largely dominated one of the best players in Stratego in history, a particularly twisted game for machines since most of the information remains hidden.
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