"These money people need numbers to know they will make their money back, which kind of conflicts with the nature of experimentation and trying to push the boundaries of the medium." ...

Researchers used artificial intelligence to reconstruct the rules of a 2,000-year-old Roman board game discovered in the Netherlands.

The researchers named it Ludus Coriovalli, or the “Coriovallum Game,” and it can now be played online against a computer. An AI helped decode the game’s rules, and now a different AI opponent lets ...