Communications of the ACM
Why the Card Game Hanabi Is Next Big Hurdle for AI
Alphabet Google Brain and DeepMind researchers hope to train artificial intelligence to master the card game Hanabi.
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Researchers at the Alphabet Google Brain project and DeepMind unit hope to train artificial intelligence (AI) to master Hanabi, a card game in which players cooperate with one another, with everyone winning or losing depending on how well they communicate through their play.
DeepMind's Nolan Bard said, "Cooperative games are different and hard because you need to be able to agree on a way that you're communicating with each other in order to play the game well, and doing that agreement requires collaboration among all the players."
The researchers think a Hanabi-playing AI could provide insights into more fluid human-machine interaction, in contexts like conversation and autonomous driving.
The project has thus far yielded Hanabi-playing programs that can win a lot, provided they play with other similarly programmed bots.
The researchers consider their biggest challenge to be facilitating "ad hoc" play, involving teammates whose playing styles are not previously known.
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