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ResearchArs Technica · AI· Jacek Krywko·· 16 days ago

Ataraxos beats the strongest Stratego player ever with 16 GPUs

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

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Ataraxos, an AI system developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford, beat Pim Niemeijer, considered the strongest Stratego player ever, with 15 wins, one loss, and four draws. Training used only 16 GPUs and cost a few thousand dollars.

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