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The world's best poker bot is learning, now crushing humanity again



DATE: 21/01/2017
RETRIEVED: 23/01/2017
SOURCE: BUSINESS INSIDER


For a few days, it looked like the humans had it figured out. Four poker pros facing off against the Libratus AI in a 20-day no-limit Texas Hold'em competition pulled back from an early $193,000 deficit with big wins on days four and six, bringing the deficit down to to $51,000, with one human, Dong King, up $33,000.

"It took us a while to study and get an understanding of what was going on," one of the pros, Jason Les, wrote in an email.

But then the bot started winning again and big. By the end of day 10, it was up a likely insurmountable $677,000, with all of the humans down six figures. (You can see the latest here).

What happened? Simply said, the bot is learning.



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