Yes, But Can The Computer Keep A Poker Face?
from the deep-stack dept
Computers have been beating humans at chess for a long time now, and just recently a group of scientists announced that they had developed an invincible checkers computer. But getting a computer to excel at poker has been something of a challenge. Whereas in chess and checkers, all of the necessary information is available to the computer for it to compute, in poker the players are dealing with imperfect information. Thus, good poker players often rely on feel and intuition, which are weak spots for machines. But computers are getting better, and starting today, a new poker-playing computer will square off against two poker pros in a contest to determine whether this bastion of human superiority is bound to fall. The program's developers have come up with a clever method to minimize the role of luck, as the computer will play two separate games simultaneously against the pros. The exact same cards will be dealt in each game, but in one game, the human will receive the cards that the computer got in the other game, and vice versa. In the end, the winner will be determined by combining the humans' chips and comparing them to what the computer has. Obviously, one contest won't be enough to give a definitive answer on this question, but if the computer does well, it will indicate that certain traits, like intuition, can actually be programmed to some extent.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Not really. What's the point of playing if you can't win. I still can't beet the computer at checkers or chess in Ubuntu. I've actually given up even on easy the computer kicks my ass. So what we found a way to give the computer an advantage. It already has an advantage it can process way more calculations per minute than I can.
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Re: Sounds Fun (Insomniac)
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I got 5 on it
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Re: I got 5 on it
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Chip count
On the other hand maybe I should read the article, because that would most likely answer my question...
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Wrong conclusion
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Not intuition, not a guess.
If the humans are unassisted, all it will take is raw computational power and sufficiently random number generation, and the computer can overpower any opponent.
They may lose a hand from time to time, but as any poker player will tell you, everybody has their bad beats.
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Why would it be hard?
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Re: Why would it be hard?
Knowing the maths is the most basic part of poker; to be a halfway decent player you need to be able to read your opponent, understand what his/her betting patterns mean, work out when s/he's bluffing, etc. Can a computer do that? Maybe, but it's a lot harder than working out the odds.
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The benefits of making machines that can out-think humans and (supposedly) also mimic our ability to "feel" and reason (the things we seem to claim set us apart from machines) are huge. If a machine can out-compute and out-think us, as well as have some human-like learning/intuitive capacity, it could very easily lead to answers to medical questions that would take us many years to find on our own.
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