Ataraxos AI beats top Stratego player 15-1
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built Ataraxos, an AI that defeated Pim Niemeijer 15-1 with four draws, trained on just 16 GPUs.
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University has built an AI called Ataraxos that defeated top Stratego player Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one, with four draws. The result was reported by arstechnica.com.
Ataraxos was trained using just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars, a fraction of the resources typically associated with superhuman game-playing systems.
Stratego is a game of imperfect information, where players cannot see each other's pieces. This makes it fundamentally different from games like chess and Go, where all pieces are visible.
In 1997, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov at chess, and in 2016, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go. Both games are perfect-information, meaning all pieces are visible to both players.
In 2022, DeepMind introduced its Stratego AI DeepNash, which the team says was stumped by the game's bluffing balancing act.
Quick answers
What is Ataraxos?
Ataraxos is an AI built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford that plays Stratego.
How did Ataraxos perform against Pim Niemeijer?
Ataraxos won 15 games, lost 1, and drew 4 against top Stratego player Pim Niemeijer.
How was Ataraxos trained?
It was trained using just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars.