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Here's an opportunity to help shape the future of bridge. Get involved with Innovation Week (January 8-14, extended through to January 21), and explore our latest AI innovation.
You'll be playing alongside the AI bridge robot we affectionately call "ACBL-Ben". This version of Ben is an AI bridge engine that's been "trained" by 100 million hands played by human players in BBO's ACBL pair tournaments. This means that ACBL Ben has learned to play more like you and me, than a traditional bridge robot.
Login to BBO, go to the "Robot World" section and look for "Try Our AI Bridge Engine" or click the yellow button under tournaments list with the same name.
Once you've played you'll be able to share your thoughts in this survey. You can also get involved in the discussion on the BBO Forum. You'll be actively shaping the future of online bridge.
To find out more about our AI work, you can see how five different bridge robots stack up against human competition here.
Don't miss out - let's play and shape the future together!
How come AI means that the robot answers 2 keycards when having only one ? That was really artificial stupidity.
AI bridge tournament got stuck on hand #8 today, Jan 12.
I am 1morehand
This better not ruin my 100% TCR.
that is got stuck on Jan 11, not 12.
thurs 1/11 robot froze at t13. still not fixed 6 hrs later. cannot continue as still locked. hstern
There is some bug. It needs to attack but It just blocked.
much prefer the standard robot with the standard mistakes. this new one is unpredictable and does not play the cards properly.
train it on all Zia's recorded hands :))) - Bids and play! then we will have a real player to beat us all
They appear to double count HCP and distribution (ex. singleton K is not worth 5), count distribution shortness in NT, accept invitations when holding a minimal hand for their previous bid (1S - 2S - 3S will bid 4S with 7HCP and 3 card support). Not sure how they were "trained" because these are similar to GIB weaknesses which most moderately skilled human player do not have.
only the card play is trained to be human.
the bidding is trained to be similar to GIB
Awful. Who got the brilliant idea to let poor players teach a robot? I guess most players prefer to partner someone better than someone even worse than they are. On the other hand, it would be acceptable to have one dedicated robot type mimic excellent players partnering their client. Clients are bound to be delighted then. Perhaps product management could be revisited on BBO, that we all celebrate for its original intentions.
I don't believe that matching the play in ACBL pairs tournaments should be the goal. Were all three robots using the AI engine or just our partner? Our side had very little to do. There were only a couple boards in my set of any distinction, they did not impress in any area of the game (bidding, play, defense) in those boards.
Better than GIB 🙂
With the caveat that eight boards are hardly a sufficient sample size, the AI appears to be somewhat inferior to the regular robot insofar as quality of bidding and play. However, the more important aspect is that the regular robots tend to be predictably bad, which means we can adjust accordingly, whereas the AI was bad in unexpected ways (again, this may be a case of the small sample size).
Card play not impressive. Didn't avoid getting end played with full count on the hand.
As advertised, trained to play like real people
needs work! after pard opens 1D it bids 1S with AKQJ98, Q762, void, AK5. After pard rebids 1NT it bids 4C (Gerber) with a void. Also it's pard needs to play (guess ?) the ending better as he had set up a criss-cross squeeze for the overtrick. Some card play issues as well.
"alongside" - do you mean as partner, opps, or both, or giving advice on what we should bid?
East, North and West are played by the new engine.
What system will they play? Can we choose system, conventions?
it plays 2/1 with the same conversations you are used to playing with the BBO robot.
for now the system and conventions can't be configured.
Does it bicker with its partner about bidding conventions?
no, it just plays the same as the BBO robot
I don’t see this on iOS devices
exceiient
In the world of bridge, if a partner is hiding information, that's not good. if the enemy is hiding information, TD can punish him. BBO, would you be so kind as to write down the name of the robot that is on the table. Also would you kind to give us a complete system and style gibs play by robots name. Thanks.
I hope they have stopped opening 10 point hands at the one level.
Great. Programmed bots can really go crazy. I'll be there checking AI out. Good luck all
Looking forward to this. Bbo robots can be very frustrating.
Agree - I am debating whether to continue playing bridge as the Robots drive me crazy