Tag: Pluribus

Flush royal in poker player hand. Lucky winner.

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January 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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Beautiful Mind (film), Eric Holloway, Featured, John Nash, Nash equilibrium, Pluribus, poker, Robert J. Marks}

AI Smash Hits #2 To Win AI-Run Poker Humans Must Find Blind Spots

_{Each pro separately played 5,000 hands of poker against five copies of Pluribus and Pluribus won. Now this, in itself, was an astonishing result.} _{News
January 21, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is back with the second instalment of 2020 smash hits in AI. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). This time, Dr. Marks talks with Eric Holloway about AI programs that can beat humans at poker. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-117-Eric-Holloway-Jonathan-Bartlett.mp3 Our story begins at 16:36. Here’s a partial transcript. (Show Notes and Additional Resources follow, along with a link to the complete transcript.) Robert J. Marks: Carnegie Mellon and Facebook AI beats professionals in six player poker. This result astonished me. I have always heard poker players say that poker is not a game of Read More ›

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July 23, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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___longform, Clasudicus, John von Neumann, Libratus, Liz Boeree, Maria Konnikova, Pluribus, poker, The Biggest Bluff (book), Tuomas Sandholm}

Does AI Really “Get” Poker? Why That Matters.

_{Science journalist Maria Konnikova, also a professional poker player, explores the human side of poker and efforts to automate it} _{News
July 23, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Maria Konnikova (left), a science journalist who quit a good gig to become a poker player, learned a a good deal about the human side of the game and about AI programmers’ efforts at automating it. Along the way, she won money and wrote a book, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win (June 2020). In an excerpt at Wired, she reflects on the fact that computer pioneer John von Neumann (1903–1957) was a poker player and “Not just a poker player, but someone for whom poker inspired brilliant insights into human decisionmaking, someone who considered it the ultimate game for approximating the strategic challenges of life.” Poker is a game of skill but Read More ›