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Try solving visual puzzles used to sort humans from bots and see how they’ve gotten harder as AI has gotten smarter.

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A little over a decade ago, AI researchers Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley set small robots fitted with sensors loose in a maze and tried several different approaches. The f ...

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