the_dude Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 huh? This one boggled my mind, because I thought the one thing GIB could do right was play card combinations. With the following trump suit: Q10942 AJ63 GIB led low to the Jack, and when it held, cashed the Ace????? There was no opposition bidding and nothing to ruff in the short hand. It even had an easy entry back to Q10942 hand and no work to do but claim the remaining tricks (but one) after repeating the finesse. How is it that GIB could make such a mistake? I would also like to note that at every other table, with a slightly different bidding sequence, GIB played it right. Is it something personal??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Is it something personal??? Yeah. I'm sure BBO hires one guy to be behind each GIB, you just happened to play with the GIB manipulated by an enemy of yours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dude Posted October 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Yeah. I'm sure BBO hires one guy to be behind each GIB, you just happened to play with the GIB manipulated by an enemy of yours. I knew it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billw55 Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Maybe it's a reverse Turing test. Your task is to guess which GIB isn't really a GIB :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted October 23, 2011 Report Share Posted October 23, 2011 Ooh, this give me an idea for a way to program bridge robots without any AI. I recently read the book "The Most Human Human", which recounts the author's experience as one of the human competitors in the annual Turing Test competition. He talked about how some of the computer programs are designed -- they search archives of actual human conversations, and look for similar sequences. This is also how Google Translate works; it searches pre-existing translations for the phrases in the supplied document. This type of bridge robot could search archives of bridge hands, looking for similar layouts and bidding sequences, and how the humans bid and played them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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