Invited Lectures

30/01/2023

Title: Nook: A New Generation AI Dedicated to the Game of Bridge

Presenter: Veronique Ventos

Abstract

On March 25 2022, at the end of a two-day Bridge tournament against eight world champions the Bridge AI Nook was declared victorious. This is a world première the game of bridge still being a great challenge to Artificial Intelligence. NooK is a new generation AI according to several aspects. The first one is related to the fact that Nook is hybrid since it is made up of symbolic rule-based modules and neural network one. Rather than learning by playing a huge amount of games, it begins by recovering and modeling human expertise in a Background Knowledge described using a relational logic. Moreover Nook is able to provide explanations related to each decision. The robot is developed by NukkAI, a French start-up that we will present at the start of the talk. In the following we will give the basics of the game of bridge and its distinguishing characteristics from other mind games The other two parts will be devoted to the challenge and the description of the NooK modules.

Program

15:30-16:15 Invited Lecture: Nook: A New Generation AI Dedicated to the Game of Bridge - Veronique Ventos

16:15-17:00 Q&A and discussion