Another Game Solved
This gives me a thrill up my leg.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker Competition in Las Vegas.
Poker champs fought the AI system to a draw, then won in the first two of four rounds (each round had Polaris playing 500 hands against two humans, whose points were averaged.) But in the final two rounds of the match, Polaris beat both human teams, two wins out of four, with one loss and one draw.
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I'm surprised it's taken this long to write an AI that can pwn the Poker table. In fact, I suspect there are older implementations running on dedicated servers hosted in the Turks And Caicos Islands that can give Polaris a beatdown that will leave marks for years.
Still, it's nice to know that the news is going out now. Playing a game of Poker intermediated by a telecommunication system is one of the dumbest things a human can do these days.
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