A Hybrid AI Just Beat Eight World Champions at Bridge--and Explained How It Did It

Champion bridge player Sharon Osberg once wrote, “Playing bridge is like running a business. It's about hunting, chasing, nuance, deception, reward, danger, cooperation and, on a good day, victory.” While it's little surprise chess fell to number-crunching supercomputers long ago, you'd expect humans to maintain a more unassailable advantage in bridge, a game of incomplete […]