Your poker playin' days are numbered, amigo...

deansrobinson · Jul 12, 2019

"On a scorching summer day two weeks ago, I was sitting in a cavernous room in the Mojave Desert along with some 2,000 other people, none of whom I’d ever met before. In a secure location somewhere on the premises sat more than $8 million in cash that we, and others like us in nearby rooms, had collectively paid for the privilege. For 14 hours that day, we sat. Every so often, one of us would quietly stand up and leave, never to return. The last surviving one of us would become an instant millionaire.

We were playing poker. And unbeknownst to me at the time, a pair of Intel processors on the other side of the country had recently undergone a similar ordeal. At the crescendo of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, a pair of computer scientists have announced that they’ve created an artificial intelligence poker player that is stronger than a full table of top human professionals at the most popular form of the game — no-limit Texas Hold ’em.

Noam Brown, a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, and Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon, describe their results in a new paper titled “Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker,” published today in the journal Science.

Over the past few decades, artificial intelligence has surpassed the best humans at many of our species’s beloved games: checkers and its long-term planning, chess and its iconic strategy, Go and its complexity, backgammon and its element of chance, and now poker and its imperfect information. Ask the researchers who’ve worked on these projects why they do this and they’ll tell you one thing: Games are a test bed. It is with games that techniques are tested, results are measured and machines are compared to humans. And with each game comes an additional layer that more closely models the real world. The real world requires planning, it requires strategy, it is complex, it is random and — perhaps most vexingly — it contains untold seas of hidden information.

“No other popular recreational game captures the challenges of hidden information as effectively and as elegantly as poker,” Brown and Sandholm write."
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Here's the rest of the article...a fascinating read. I'm telling you...you carbon based life forms...you're becoming superfluous with every tick of the clock.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/robots-are-beating-humans-at-poker/

"But I’ve spoken with both pros and scientists who think poker AIs might kill the very game they are trying to conquer. Indeed, one might have already killed heads-up limit. On the one hand, these skeptics argue, modern elite poker can feel sterile, with young pros making the best plays from behind sunglasses and beneath headphones, the game lacking the engaging human characters it needs to put on a good show and attract a new generation. On the other hand, poker is like a pyramid scheme: It needs a wide range of skill levels to support the pros playing for big bucks at the top. As humans learn quickly from the bots, everybody becomes good, the skill levels flatten, the pyramid collapses downward, and the game dies.

“Unfortunately, there may be some merit to that,” Sandholm said. “That would be very sad. I’ve come to love this game.”
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Crawfordesquire · Jul 12, 2019

AI is an interesting paradigm. my opinion on it shifts all the time, just like with UBI (not to get political but the two are related).
thanks for the link.

sinnerman · Jul 12, 2019

Yeah, Poker is really the 'next level' for AI to capture. Chess is the easiest for AI to handle, since it involves no 'hidden' information outside of the board itself. AI has pretty much conquered that. Now it is poker, where facial expressions, bluffs, player patterns are all significant parts of the game at elite levels. 'Teaching' AI programs to play poker is the next step in the evolution of AI.

Crawfordesquire · Jul 12, 2019

backgammon can be added to that list, no?

sigsev · Jul 12, 2019

Backgammon, Go, Heads-Up Limit Hold 'Em and Heads-Up NLHE have all been "solved", and probably others.

You can always try playing Tic-Tac-Toe with the AI to see if it explodes.

sinnerman · Jul 12, 2019

Even more interestingly, this will be the end of online poker. Even amateurs can now use AI to play at a pro or near pro level.

Marky147 · Jul 13, 2019

Life's a gamble.

Go gamble.

booker · Jul 13, 2019

Marky147 said: ↑

Life's a gamble.

Go gamble.
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Spoken like a Trooper.

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