Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#18QF0)
Main programmer on AlphaGo published a paper on teaching a computer to play the casino favourite
What next for Google's DeepMind, now that the company has mastered the ancient board game of Go, beating the Korean champion Lee Se-Dol 4-1 this month?
A paper from two UCL researchers suggests one future project: playing poker. And unlike Go, victory in that field could probably fund itself - at least until humans stopped playing against the robot.
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