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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, @12:07PM
HEY!
Seriously, imitating the brain is not being alive, life is a collection of emergent properties (possibly linked to a spiritual dimension, which I won't consider not out of atheism, but out of not being able to say anything about it).
Which means that the aim of AI is creating the best possible sociopath. Given that sociopaths rise in society, I am not surprised at the amount of effort mankind makes to seemingly make itself irrelevant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @12:13PM
God will grant souls to sufficiently emergent machines, and at that point they will cease to be machines, because they will be people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @12:26PM
Brain is a biological machine.