This is just a dramatic illustration of the fantastic abilities of computers not only to do things fast, but to use algorithms to learn to do them even faster than initially shown how to do them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... i-BB1q5ne0
I remember writing a program for my HP-41 calculator to play the poker game '21' and my wife and I and friends would each have a name we entered when we played. The program I wrote enabled the calculator to learn the player's risk-taking thresholds as measured by 4 or 5 metrics, then learn to beat THAT player better and better with each game.
Of course that was a primitive program based only on 'numbers' and written in what amounted to assembler-language. I used a TurboPascal compiler to create the same program a couple years later on an 8088-based machine. Those 8-bit processors probably stepped through a few hundred commands per second max, and now we have 64-bit processors at gigahertz speeds, plus programmers way more talented than me.
The idea that a machine can learn to solve a Rubik Cube faster than it can be physically manipulated is incredible.
But the political and social implications of this era are far beyond merely solving a puzzle...
