Topic: Poker
Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Humans – WIRED (Feb 2, 2017)
When most of your news about AI comes from the tech world, it’s easy to imagine that big tech companies are the only ones doing interesting things in the field, but here as in autonomous driving there’s also lots of amazing work being done in academia, as in this case. Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed a poker-playing AI which combines three different methods for learning the game and ultimately beating human players. The piece is worth reading for the details of how this was done, but it’s also a good reminder that neither any single tech company nor the tech industry as a whole has a monopoly on big breakthroughs in AI.
via Wired