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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, G
Geoffrey Hinton has pointed out that today's large language models demonstrate "clear understanding" of what they're being asked. An image models response to a prompt about."stochastic parrots" provides more evidence that this is true. https://ai-consc
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.