Even the best poker face won’t work against a new superhuman cardsharp. For the first time, a computer algorithm has solved a game of poker, heads-up limit Texas Hold’em, making it unbeatable in the ...

To computers, there are basically two kinds of games in this world: games that we’ve figured out how to beat (perfect information games) and games we’re just beginning to solve (imperfect information ...

A team of researchers has created the perfect poker player, in the form of a computer algorithm. Scientist Michael Bowling, with his colleagues at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and ...

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Kai-Fu Lee of Sinovation Ventures and Tuomas Sandholm of CMU at the poker tournament in southern China. The world’s most advanced poker bot just trounced all comers at a tournament last weekend in ...

With fewer televised poker tournaments and an increase in the number of people cutting their cable cord, many people are moving towards streaming platforms to consume their media. As a result, YouTube ...

An artificial-intelligence (AI) system has beaten professional poker players at a two-player version of the game called Texas hold'em that has no limits on betting. Poker is hard for machines to ...

The challenge is on. Computer scientists say they’ve created an algorithm that has essentially solved a version of Texas hold ’em, and it’s guaranteed to beat every single puny human competitor in the ...

Poker players beware — there's a new star in town and it'll beat the best players around. Researchers from the University of Alberta have created a computer algorithm that essentially solves heads-up ...

Tuomas Sandholm, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, is not a poker player—or much of a poker fan, in fact—but he is fascinated by the game for much the same reason as the great game ...