Programmers set out to find if playing hide and seek taught artificial intelligence how to use digital tools, reports Quanta Magazine.

Programmers at OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company, recently taught a gaggle of intelligent artificial agents — bots — to play hide-and-seek

Artificial intelligence is being used to tell where Shakespeare’s writing ends and that of his collaborator begins, reports Popular Mechanics. 

The MIT Technology Review reports that a scientist claims he knows for sure where Shakespeare ends and his long-suspected collaborator begins. 

According to IP Watchdog, there is a problem in the Patent Office with backlogs and the granting of bad patents, which could be solved by deploying artificial intelligence. 

Frakes and Wasserman cite sources saying that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is granting too many bad patents which “unnecessarily drain consumer welfare, stunt productive research, and unreasonably extract rents from innovators.”  They trace the problem to a lack of sufficient review time available to the examiner:

According to Futurism, AI is being used to study quantum mechanics. 

A new machine learning algorithm could probe the quantum behavior of molecules, giving chemists a better ability to design new compounds from scratch.