The poker pros took a bit of a beating during the “Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” event that finished Jan. 30.
The marathon 20-day poker competition had historic implications, with the artificial intelligence besting the pros. After the last of the 120,000 hands of heads-up no limit Texas hold’em was played, Libratus, the famed new computer from Carnegie Mellon University, had a collective $1,766,250 in chips.
This is a statistically significant finding, suggesting that artificial intelligence can spread into other realms of information gathering, whether business negotiation, military strategy, cybersecurity or medical treatment planning.