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Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence

posted by mrpg on Friday January 13 2017, @09:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the try-the-game-of-life dept.

mhajicek writes:

AI's have beaten the best human players in chess, go, and now poker.

In a landmark achievement for artificial intelligence, a poker bot developed by researchers in Canada and the Czech Republic has defeated several professional players in one-on-one games of no-limit Texas hold'em poker.

Perhaps most interestingly, the academics behind the work say their program overcame its human opponents by using an approximation approach that they compare to "gut feeling."

"If correct, this is indeed a significant advance in game-playing AI," says Michael Wellman, a professor at the University of Michigan who specializes in game theory and AI. "First, it achieves a major milestone (beating poker professionals) in a game of prominent interest. Second, it brings together several novel ideas, which together support an exciting approach for imperfect-information games."

Source: Poker Is the Latest Game to Fold Against Artificial Intelligence

Is there anything at which AI's won't soon be able to beat humans?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Dunbal on Friday January 13 2017, @10:01AM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Friday January 13 2017, @10:01AM (#453229)

    >Is there anything at which AI's won't soon be able to beat humans?

    Why yes. Global Thermonuclear War, of course. The only way to win is not to play.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:09AM (#453230)

    And yet we humans aren't nuking each other back to the stone age. If we did that, we would severely impede our ability to bicker across thousands of miles at near-light speed. Bickering is more fun. Now here's a challenge for you. Build a machine that genuinely enjoys bickering. Not because it was programmed to, because it wants to.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:28AM (#453233)

      That's easy - program it to *want* to. Calculate "enjoyment" level. Humans work the same way.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:37AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:37AM (#453235)

        I've been told you like herring sandwiches.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @11:57PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @11:57PM (#453603)

        Can we program it to *want* to reduce CO2 as well? Wow, tech has come such a long way since I left work at 5pm.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14 2017, @07:20AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14 2017, @07:20AM (#453728)

          Of course we can. Can we program it to actually do something about it? That's another question.

    • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Saturday January 14 2017, @04:11AM

      by Dunbal (3515) on Saturday January 14 2017, @04:11AM (#453701)

      Build a machine that genuinely enjoys bickering.

      Re-inventing the female.