Long before the current AI hype cycle, mid-20th-century researchers turned to...

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Long before the current AI hype cycle, mid-20th-century researchers turned to card games like poker, solitaire, and bridge to grapple with one of the field’s central challenges: reasoning under uncertainty and incomplete information