If you’ve ever left a poker table penniless, you definitely don’t want to go up against Libratus. Built by a computer science professor and a graduate student, the artificial intelligence system is ...

For almost three weeks, Dong Kim sat at a casino in Pittsburgh and played poker against a machine. But Kim wasn't just any poker player. This wasn't just any machine. And it wasn't just any game of ...

Professional poker player Jason Les matches wits with Libratus, Carnegie Mellon University’s poker-playing AI program. (CMU via YouTube) You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — ...

The Kenny Rogers classic profoundly states that "you've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em," and for the first time, an AI has out-gambled world-class players at heads-up, no-limit ...

"That was anticlimactic," Jason Les said with a smirk, getting up from his seat. Unlike nearly everyone else in Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino, Les had just played his last few hands against an ...

Today begins week three of the poker tournament between Libratus, an AI system built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, and four of the world’s top pros. While the humans plan to soldier ...

When Tuomas Sandholm began studying poker to research artificial intelligence 12 years ago, he never imagined that a computer would be able to defeat the best human players. “At least not in my ...

Poker is said to be an "incomplete information game" because all information on hands has not been released, and it has been considered difficult for artificial intelligence (AI) to defeat humans.

The 20-day poker tournament between four human pros and an artificial intelligence program concluded last night. The AI, named Libratus, was created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and ...

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