DNA computer can play chess and solve sudoku puzzles

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training artificial intelligence models.

DNA devices have a number of potential advantages, such as being able to safely store vast amounts of information, in microscopically tiny volumes, for millennia. One drawback of previous DNA systems is that they tend to focus on storing data in this way or on using it for computation, but doing…