AI tools can generate an optimal poker strategy, balancing bluffing and playing it straight, which some professional players are using to augment their play
Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. Tweets: @marloscmachado , @nytimes , @octonion , @electricalwsop , and @tarunchitra Tweets: Marlos C. Machado / @marloscmachado : Nice article from the NYT. Naturally, it discusses some of the role the University of Alberta had in this conquer. Neil Burch, from our DeepMind office in Alberta, is featured in here. How A.I. Conquered Poker https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes @UAlberta @AmiiThinks @DeepMind @nytimes : A.I.-based approaches have changed the poker landscape. Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. https://www.nytimes.com/... Christopher D. Long / @octonion : The amount of cheating that goes on in poker, not just online, has always been enormous. How A.I. Conquered Poker https://www.nytimes.com/... Steve Albini / @electricalwsop : Most general audience writing about poker is a hard cringe of slang, misapprehension and handwringing. This is as precise and cold blooded as the game and just terrific. The best thing I've read about poker in years. @MrKeithRomer https://twitter.com/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Pretty good article which resembles a lot of what @hasufl has said about poker's evolution However, I can't believe that @MrKeithRomer didn't mention Tuomas Sandholm, @polynoamial, and Libratus (!!!!) https://twitter.com/...