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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: 5, Insightful) by stormreaver on Friday January 13 2017, @02:28PM
They cannot possess faith.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Faith is one of the pillars of human destruction.
They cannot commune with god.
Neither can we. Speaking with imaginary beings is not possible; and intelligent, learning machines will most likely be smart enough to understand this far earlier than humanity.
They cannot create art.
This is questionable, as machine algorithms have created "art" that is at least on par with much of what passes for art today. That indicates that art is quantifiable, and can therefore be produced algorithmically. As such, machines will be able to produce it in greater quantity and greater quality than humans.
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Friday January 13 2017, @06:41PM
> >They cannot commune with god.
> Neither can we. Speaking with imaginary beings is not possible; and intelligent, learning machines will most likely be smart enough to understand this far earlier than humanity.
# Commune_with_god
opening port 42
establishing connection ........................................................................................... connection timeout
[Error comm-666] Remote host not available. Please check address or protocol.
Aborting.
#
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @07:19PM
Try starting /etc/init.d/lsd and add a static route to /dev/lo0