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ROBOTS REBEL

Tetris is one of the earliest computer games. When you play it, different-shaped blocks slowly drop from the sky, and you have to move them and rotate them so that they fit together. If you do it well, they disappear. If you do it badly they fill the screen and you lose. Eventually, everybody loses.

One day, some computer scientists decided to. This super intelligent computer program knew it had to do one thing, and one thing alone. It needed to play better than any human. To do that, its human controllers gave it the task of lasting as long as possible at the game without losing.

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