"Computer scientists have developed a card-playing bot, called Pluribus, capable of defeating some of the world’s best players at six-person no-limit Texas hold’em poker, in what’s considered an important breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
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For the new study, Brown and Sandholm subjected Pluribus to two challenging tests. The first pitted Pluribus against 13 different professional players—all of whom have earned more than $1 million in poker winnings—in the six-player version of the game. The second test involved matches featuring two poker legends, Darren Elia and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, each of whom was pitted against five identical copies of Pluribus
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“In Pluribus, we used a new way of doing search that doesn’t have to search all the way to the end of the game,” said Brown. “Instead, it can stop after a few moves. This makes the search algorithm much more scalable. In particular, it allows us to reach superhuman performance while only training for the equivalent of less than $150 on a cloud computing service, and playing in real time on just two CPUs.”
Even with a limited look-ahead strategy, Pluribus was still able to dominate its human opponent"
https://gizmodo.com/superhuman-ai-crushes-poker-pros-at-six-player-texas-1836257695
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For the new study, Brown and Sandholm subjected Pluribus to two challenging tests. The first pitted Pluribus against 13 different professional players—all of whom have earned more than $1 million in poker winnings—in the six-player version of the game. The second test involved matches featuring two poker legends, Darren Elia and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, each of whom was pitted against five identical copies of Pluribus
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“In Pluribus, we used a new way of doing search that doesn’t have to search all the way to the end of the game,” said Brown. “Instead, it can stop after a few moves. This makes the search algorithm much more scalable. In particular, it allows us to reach superhuman performance while only training for the equivalent of less than $150 on a cloud computing service, and playing in real time on just two CPUs.”
Even with a limited look-ahead strategy, Pluribus was still able to dominate its human opponent"
https://gizmodo.com/superhuman-ai-crushes-poker-pros-at-six-player-texas-1836257695