What’s it like to play poker against an AI bot? Really weird and really difficult, it turns out.
That was the vibe when we checked in on the 20-day “Brains vs. AI: Re-Match” in Pittsburgh, which pits four professional poker players against a Carnegie Mellon University-designed bot named Libratus.
Computer scientists at the university had tried this stunt with a bot named Claudico in 2015, but the humans picked up on its weird machine weaknesses and beat it soundly. So the scientists went back to the lab and rewrote its algorithm in a few key areas to make it unbeatable.
Their work paid off.
On Jan. 30, Libratus made history by trouncing the humans in a marathon 120,000 hands, coming out on top by $1,766,250 in chips — and pretty much killing it every day before that. The humans ended their inglorious run by splitting shares of a $200,000 prize.
The bot’s win has numerous implications for any field where decision-making is based on incomplete, or hidden, information. Or straight-up misinformation. Fields where people are forced to think like poker players, basically. Business negotiation, military strategy, cybersecurity, and medical treatment are all areas the bot’s designers say could benefit from the algorithms that govern its automated decision-making.
Get ready, humanity — the bots have entered the building.
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Who's dealing or shuffling cards,,,the AI or hands
When my table said I got beat from a bot. That was enough for me. Haven't played since.
This convention that is that man can create something more intelligent than man himself is as ridiculous as it is telling on just how distracted humans are. Take human distractions out of the equation and AI becomes a bench mark for the human brain. There is a DNA computer out there that is based on the human brain and it can blow any other artificial intelligence right out of its chips. This was nothing but an exercise that establishes just how mentally lazy and distracted we are.
I'm surrounded by bots right now in the 1 dollar Bounty Hunter on Party Poker. Bots galore.
I beat the poker academy bot and it was so predictable back in 2008. Also if you keep adapting to the bots then you can keep winning. These pros are probably not playing seriously because it's not for real money. And also the sample size in 3 days is not enough to predict that this bot is a guaranteed winner in the long-run.
I want to vs the pc
how do you beat a machine that has no emotion, no worry, no bills to pay, no family to support????????????????????? in the future there will be computer apps that let you use an AI to play your hand for you. it might exist already in some format. that is why you should NEVER play online poker for real money. you never know who or what you are playing against……………………
this narrative that so many outlets like ViCE try to sell that AI is this powerful super diety is not accurate. The human mind does just as much every second that that super computer can do you just don't realize it because it is done subconsciously. You also can't say that one strategy is better than the other if the human has something to win or lose like pride or money and the computer doesn't. You'd have to put something into the program that he has something to lose if he actually loses. If one player plays without anything to lose and one player doesn't like the A.I. obviously has no value of money or pride then that alone is enough in a no limit game a huge edge and thus not a real comparison of poker playing ability.
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How about playing with real cards on a table. You think that AI with all its cyber power cant see your hand on that little software? Dont be dumb. It's all fake. You want to prove it can beat humans play on our battlefield
More hands then atoms in the universe???stupidity at its finest
Honestly that's not surprising at all. That's like being surprised that a calculator can calculate faster than you.
Its only heads up matches though. The range for a poker hand is WAY wider in heads up than in a 8 handed table. Id be curious how it deals with 7 other "live" poker players. Im aware that bots exist on poker sites but they dont usually win by being better than pros, they usually win just by statistically playing more hands than a human can and making it a numbers game.
Tuomas Sandholm – professor of computer science and co-founder of Skynet.
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lol so there's less than 2,6 million atoms in the universe? lmao
Bring in Phil Ivey 😯
Not impressed the computer has the obvious advantage it can manipulate the cards that havent been turned to make their hand the winning hand , I would be impressed if they had a machine at a real table and you placed the computers cards under a scanner and then the computer made bets and calls …
humans are too costly to pay to act as bots and are also prone to leak the software. bots acting as players sadly enough is the future of poker.