Oh the humanity! Poker computer trounces humans in big step for AI
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2AVXD)
Libratus, an artificial intelligence robot, has won chips worth $1.5m from four of the world's top poker players in a three-week challenge at a Pittsburgh casino
Every day for the last 20 days, between the hours of 11am and about 10pm, four of the world's top poker players have been sitting in a Pittsburgh casino playing against a software robot called Libratus.
With only a few hours of the Brains vs Artifical Intelligence competition left, Libratus has won more than $1.5m worth of chips from the humans. It would take a miracle for the human players, Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou and Daniel McCauley - all specialists in no-limit Texas Hold'em, a two-player unlimited bid form of poker - to make a comeback.
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