This AI Solves The Rubik’s Cube Way Better Than You

By Roni Dengler
Jul 19, 2019 3:00 PMDec 23, 2019 4:26 AM
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In 1974, an architecture professor named Erno Rubik built a movable piece of art to help his students understand three-dimensional problems. Though his own creation took him more than a month to solve, it soon became an iconic puzzle game, the Rubik’s cube.

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