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Edition #128 · Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 2851 positive stories
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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

MIT Technology Review 2026-08-26
AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur Samuel about an algorithm that learned to play checkers. Chess and the Chinese board game Go are famous AI test beds too. Judged purely on its puzzling skills, AI is improv

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