Artificial intelligence continues to best humans at games, this time the classic card game Bridge.
Researchers from the French A.I. research firm NukkAI held a competition last week in Paris in which the startup’s A.I. defeated some of the world’s top Bridge players in a tournament. The victory follows a string of recent conquests in which A.I. has defeated humans in various games, such as the ancient Chinese board game Go and the video game Grand Turismo Sport.
The win was noteworthy because Bridge requires players to make strategies without knowing many of their opponents’ cards, making it a more difficult challenge than games like Chess, in which players can see their opponents’ pieces.
But about that defeating humans thing. It’s only sort of what happened.
The A.I. did not defeat human Bridge players in direct one-on-one games. Instead, the A.I. outperformed human players when competing against other computer opponents during a series of matches, or deals, in which the conditions were similar.
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