“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”

A robot by Engineered Arts interacts with visitors at a two-day summit organised by the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss artificial intelligence and its potential for empowering humanity. Photo: Johannes Simon/Getty Images.

Beginning With the End in Mind

Eva Petrič, Rubik’s Cube 3, 2019. According to a study just published in Nature Machine Intelligence, DeepCubeA, an artificial intelligence algorithm created by researchers at the University of California, has solved the Rubik’s Cube in just over a second. Photo courtesy of Mourlot Editions, New York/Artnet.