The Guardian view on bridging human and machine learning: it’s all in the game | Editorial

A French startup may have cracked AI’s problem of trust with software that can learn better than humans – and express that learning

Last week an artificial intelligence – called NooK – beat eight world champion players at bridge. That algorithms can outwit humans might not seem newsworthy. IBM’s Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. In 2016, Google’s AlphaGo defeated a Go grandmaster. A year later the AI Libratus saw off four poker stars. Yet the …

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