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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:27AM
I'd settle for a robot buddy who appreciates humor. The trouble is humor requires context or it just isn't funny, and the context is difficult to amass without real life experience to draw upon. You almost need to raise an AI like a human being, or clone an existing human into an AI, for the resulting person to have equivalent reference knowledge. Which ties into the predictions that weak AI can be trained to do a job, but strong AI must be schooled in a real world simulation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:33AM
An example of how the simulation would be used, admittedly fictional,
http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20100212.html [poisonedminds.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @10:49AM
Furthermore there's a joke in the comic, which a reader might not understand without context.
"... one of the few things I can show you and you'd be able to walk afterwards."
The character who is speaking is a sex bot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @11:47PM
No way. Humor is about saying the same phrase again and AGAIN AND AGAIN.
In Russia, humor JOKES ON U. I make a funny ha ha.