There's a particular strain of game theory, Colonel Blotto, that many believe could predict the outcomes of everything from elections to sports matches. It asks two sides to distribute soldiers over a ...

Algorithms are a hot topic of conversation, as Facebook, er, Meta, finds itself criticized for employing algorithms that promote anger and strife for the purpose of increasing customer engagement with ...

Over the past year, it's become pretty clear that machines can now beat us in many straightforward zero-sum games. A new study from an international team of computer scientists set out to develop a ...

DeepMind has applied its mastery of games to a more serious business: the foundations of computer science. The Google subsidiary today unveiled AlphaDev, an AI system that discovers new fundamental ...

The two constants in life are taxes and death…on Game of Thrones and now, one ambitious project has crafted an algorithm to determine the likeliness of a character surviving all six episodes of the ...

Today Valve released a new Steam feature to help point PC gamers towards titles they may not know about. Valve just published an interesting bit of insight into their hopes and plans for Steam as a ...