Washington DC - Oh yes, the “Games People Play.” That Joe South song was a big hit in 1968 and subsequently covered by an astonishing 194 artists. People play many games, all the time - beneficial, destructive, and otherwise - especially in the politically depraved times of this town. In his 2022 book “Seven Games: A Human History,” Eric Roeder traces the interlocking histories of more benign games such as checkers, chess, Go, poker, backgammon, Scrabble, and bridge. Roeder notes that AI-enabled machines now universally beat humans in all these games with the exception of bridge. That may be because of the two-person, team nature of bridge. It’s more likely, Roeder asserts, that not enough people care about bridge any more to invest the time and money in developing an AI challenger. Deep Blue (IBM) set the stage in toppling chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997 and the AI-driven AlphaGo (Google Deep Mind) defeated 9-dan Go professional Lee Sedol in 20...
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