Facebook's AI Masters the Card Game Hanabi

Facebook researchers taught the company's artificial intelligence software how to play a Solitaire-like card game that requires players to work together. Researchers at Facebook have taught the company's artificial intelligence (AI) software how to play the game Hanabi, a Solitaire-like card game that requires players to work together. Hanabi is viewed as a capable testbed for AI because it requires teamwork and strategy. The Facebook researchers had to find a way to give the Hanabi bots a method to understand the hints of their teammate bots, based on the limited information they have about their own cards. The researchers helped the bots using a variant of the Monte Carlo "search" technology technique to help them evaluate their possible moves.