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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @01:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @01:38PM (#453282)

    Card counting is for Blackjack, not Poker. Also was the AI up against anyone who could bluff worth a damn?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @01:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @01:54PM (#453287)

    I'm not sure this dude has ever actually played poker.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @09:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @09:04PM (#453458)

    The cards in your hand and the cards up on the table change the odds of any given hand your opponent can make.

    Example: You are holding two kings and there is one on the table. Now, what are the odds that your opponent will make a hand with three kings?