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posted by mrpg on Friday January 13 2017, @09:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the try-the-game-of-life dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @02:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @02:46PM (#453316)

    Lying is only effective if you don't get caught and professionals aren't trained to lie to computers. The computer just has to call the bluff enough times to balance out some of its benefits and its superior odds calculations will finish the rest.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 13 2017, @02:52PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday January 13 2017, @02:52PM (#453321) Homepage Journal

    And the human just has to adjust how much he bluffs to make that strategy the losing one.

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    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 13 2017, @06:52PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday January 13 2017, @06:52PM (#453399)

      Bluffing only gets you to a certain point against something which knows exactly the odds that your cards are better.
      Playing completely against the usual raise logic will either augment your losses or lower your gains. They may get a few big ones, but the machine apparently grinds them out over the long term.