AI Beats Four Top Poker Players

Post by tma-1 » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

feral wrote: post #7

brilliantcode wrote: post #5

it won't be long before we hearing more headlines like: "AI beats top 10 hedge fund managers" to "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event" regardless it's an incredible feat. It really casts questions into what our edge as humans are which is slowly disappearing and we didn't even need to put a brain in a jar and hook it up to a computer....it's deep learning reinforced algorithms that is appearing to outl…

> "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event" Knight Capital, 2012: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-02/knight-sh...

Post by blueside » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 9:10 PM UTC

TylerE wrote: post #20

blueside wrote: post #18

Unfortunately this fails to impress me, merely because you could theoretically build a terrible AI and still win.

Just showing your ignorance. That margin of victory over that many hands isn't luck or coincidence. The pros were absolutely dominated.

Post by jat850 » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

blueside wrote: post #23

TylerE wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just showing your ignorance. That margin of victory over that many hands isn't luck or coincidence. The pros were absolutely dominated.

I disagree and it's not ignorance on my part. Due to the nature of the poker and heavily weighted component of luck, a terrible AI can theoretically win. I am sure the AI they built is a mighty and spectacular achievement, but poker is about the only game I know where the worst player can easily beat the best player. Prove me wrong and I'll happily accept your insult of "ignorance" edit I should have been more clear,…

Post by niketear » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 9:15 PM UTC

RyanRies wrote: post #26

Did I read the article incorrectly, or did it say that the bots creators were feeding it additional data each night before the next day's tournament? If so that defeats the entire purpose, doesn't it?

Post by niketear » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 9:16 PM UTC

moosinho wrote: post #13

Hmm, why is it surprising that AI is good at poker? The way I see the game is that a bad poker player will just hold a model of his hand in mind. A slightly better one will also hold a model of his opponent's hand. Even better one will also model his opponent's model of himself... and so on recursively. And who's really good at recursion? Computers.