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."
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Is there anything at which AI's won't soon be able to beat humans?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:09AM
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
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
I've been told you like herring sandwiches.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @11:57PM
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
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
Build a machine that genuinely enjoys bickering.
Re-inventing the female.