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The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory — mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to ...

And, as we changed this means of interaction rather quickly, one way we did it has to do with games. Game engines are now AI ...

Discover the legacy of John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician behind the Nash Equilibrium and a key figure in game ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World. By Kelly Clancy. Riverhead Books; 368 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 In 1824 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia asked for a demonstration of an elaborate game he ...

Cooperative game theory is often seen as a numbers-driven discipline rooted in mathematics. Yet beyond the equations lies a powerful framework, particularly in macroeconomics, for understanding how ...