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, @02:46PM
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
And the human just has to adjust how much he bluffs to make that strategy the losing one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 13 2017, @06:52PM
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.