BigDataFr recommends: A Top Poker-Playing Algorithm Is Cleaning Up in China

[…] The world’s most advanced poker bot just trounced all comers at a tournament last weekend in Hainan, an island province in southern China.

A previous version of the bot defeated several top professional players in a tournament held at a Pittsburgh casino over several weeks this January. Called Libratus, it was developed by Tuomas Sandholm, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in machine learning and game theory, along with one of his students, Noam Brown.

The feat was significant because poker is fundamentally different from the types of games AI researchers have tackled previously. Because an opponent’s cards are hidden from view, playing well requires extremely complex strategizing (see “Why Poker Is a Big Deal for Artificial Intelligence”).[…]

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By Will Knight
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com