Poker and AI: Reporting from the 2016 Annual Computer Poker Competition

Poker and AI: Reporting from 2016 Annual Computer Poker Competition, Part 1You’ve probably all seen something in the news about AI (artificial intelligence) recently, whether it’s self-driving cars, computers competing at the highest level in the ancient board game of Go, or the latest humanoid robots from Boston Dynamics. It’s a fast-moving field, and the problems that AI is tackling are all over the place.

Attending the 2016 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence last month in Phoenix, I can confirm that this view is broadly accurate. There were something like 400 talks or posters plus a half-dozen keynotes discussing a dozen different concentrations of AI. Topics covered ranged from…