Researchers use a GeForce GTX 1080 for poker supremacy
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Games have been used as a measure of AI capabilities for quite some time. Despite the idea starting off in the eighteenth century with fraudulent chess-playing machines, computer algorithm approaches started to pop up in the 1940s. Twenty years ago, IBM supercomputer Big Blue made headlines for beating reigning world champion Garry Kasparov in a set of matches.
Texas Hold 'Em poker represents a different kind of challenge than chess, since each player has access to only a limited part of the game's total state. Despite this challenge, researchers published work in 2015 claiming that an algorithm could defeat human players one-on-one in the limited-bet form of Texas Hold 'Em ...