Ataraxos AI Beats Stratego Legend Pim Niemeijer 15-1
Stratego was one of the few major competitive board games where humans still had the edge over machines. That may now be over. A research team from Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Stanford University and MIT has built Ataraxos, a Stratego AI that clearly beat the most successful player in the game's history. According to the team, training cost less than $8,000.
The work is published in Nature. As far as the authors know, Ataraxos is the first AI to reach superhuman level in Stratego.
A one-sided match against the best
In an official 20-game series, Ataraxos played Dutch player Pim Niemeijer. The final score was 15 wins, four draws and one loss for the AI.