[CMU] BigDataFr recommends: Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Beats Top Poker Pros

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BigDataFr recommends: Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Beats Top Poker Pros

[…] Historic win at Rivers Casino is first against best human players

Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world’s best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition, called “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.

Once the last of 120,000 hands of Heads-up, No-Limit Texas Hold’em were played on Jan. 30, Libratus led the pros by a collective $1,766,250 in chips. The developers of Libratus — Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in computer science — said the sizable victory is statistically significant and not simply a matter of luck.

“The best AI’s ability to do strategic reasoning with imperfect information has now surpassed that of the best humans,” Sandholm said.[…]

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By Byron Spice
Source: hbr.org

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