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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @05:37PM
"...the AI world has literally been turned on its head by deep learning in the last 4 years."
No.
Sorry, it really hasn't.
What has changed is the scale of execution of techniques that have been under discussion for decades.
To use a car analogy, you're proposing that the existence of stretched limousines has literally turned GM on its head. Quite aside from your misuse of the term `literally', the engineering response to a stretched Escalade is to shrug and ask what they did to reinforce the frame, and ask how the handling is, not immediately start simultaneously masturbating and weeping.
Now, if someone came up with an architecture that allowed for arbitrary manifestation of the key features of cognition in an arbitrary context, that would be big news. But that is nowhere near any hint of anything even on the horizon of what these guys have achieved.
At this point, it's pretty much a yawn. Another game beaten, this one an incomplete information one largely driven by statistics. Moving on ...