Game theory got its start with the work of John von Neumann in the 1920s, which culminated in his book with Oskar Morgenstern. They studied "zero-sum" games where the interests of two players were ...

A foreboding look at how game theory influences AI. In “Playing With Reality,” the neuroscientist Kelly Clancy both celebrates and critiques “how games have come to dominate modern thought.” ...

The book “Game Theory” caught my eye, not because I thought it was something helpful, but because I thought it was about a video game like Pokemon. I picked it up and started reading the book.

Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World. By Kelly Clancy. Riverhead Books; 368 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 In 1824 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia asked for a demonstration of an elaborate game ...

New AI study examines social capabilities of large language models (LLMs), affirming the overall importance of applying human ...

Much of his analysis involves game theory—in this case, thinking about and responding to what other players do. 16 Books We Read This Week The roots of a historic atrocity, the lure of nostalgia ...

Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent.