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Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

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Technology AI Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. Maker Joshua Stanley Robotics used magnets and an open source chess platform to build this unique board. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It's been nearly 30 years since chess champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM's Deep Blue, marking the first time a reigning world champion was defeated by a computer in a match. Chess engines have since improved so dramatically that even a simple smartphone app can now make top grandmasters sweat .




UniBench: VisualReasoningRequiresRethinking Vision-LanguageBeyondScaling

Neural Information Processing Systems

Wefind that while scaling training data ormodel size can boost many vision-language model capabilities, scaling offers little benefit for reasoning or relations. Surprisingly, we also discover today's best VLMs struggle on simple digit recognition and counting tasks, e.g. MNIST, which much simpler networks can solve.