DeepMind wants to teach AI to play a card game that's harder than Go

If you've ever played the card game Hanabi, you'll understand when I say it's unlike any other. It's a collaborative game in which you have full view of everyone else's hands but not your own. To win the game, each player must give the others hints about their hands over a limited number of rounds to arrange all the cards in a specific order. That's why researchers at Google Brain and DeepMind think it's the perfect game for AI to tackle next. In a new paper, they argue that unlike the other games AI has mastered, such as chess, Go, and poker, Hanabi requires theory of mind and a higher level of reasoning.