AI Beats Professional Poker Players
January 31st, 2017Via: BBC:
A poker-playing AI has beaten four human players in a marathon match lasting 20 days.
Libratus, an artificial intelligence program developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was trained to play a variant of the game known as no-limit heads-up Texas hold ’em.
In a similar tournament in 2015, the humans won.
The victory has been hailed as a significant milestone for AI, by the team responsible for building it.
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One of the professional poker players, Jimmy Chou, admitted at the halfway point that the AI was proving a tough opponent.
“The bot gets better and better every day. It’s like a tougher version of us,” he said.
“The first couple of days, we had high hopes,” Mr Chou said.
“But every time we find a weakness, it learns from us and the weakness disappears the next day.”
He added that the professionals had been sharing notes and tips in an effort to find weaknesses in the AI’s game-play.
But they were not the only ones doing homework.
Each night after the play ended, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre added computations to sharpen the AI’s strategy.
