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BOOKSHELF - Human Competition Artificial Intelligence - OLIVER ROEDER GAMES
39 minutes Posted Oct 11, 2026 at 2:49 am.
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HuSaS Competition Artificial Intelligence
Oliver Roeder, author of Seven Games: A Human History, thoroughly explores seven iconic games at the intersection of human competition and artificial intelligence. The recording analyzes mathematical complexity, hidden information, and randomness across No Limit Texas Hold’em poker, Contract Bridge, competitive Scrabble, checkers, chess, Go, and backgammon. Tracing milestones from the Mechanical Turk to Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and neural networks, Roeder demonstrates how classical games serve as ideal testing grounds teaching complex artificial intelligence systems how to navigate real-world human reasoning. (1)