AI System Beats Humans at the Poker Table, in Complex Game (IMAGE)

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AI System Beats Humans at the Poker Table, in Complex Game

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Researchers have created an artificial intelligence system that outperforms humans at the ultimate, no-limit version of Texas Hold'em, a complex game involving 10160 possible moves. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 2, online issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Moravc ?ík at University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "DeepStack: Expert-level artificial intelligence in heads-up no-limit poker."

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