Pluribus employs strategy that affirms best tactical instincts of top players (Representational) Jason Les, one of the world's premier poker players, was representing his species when he faced off in ...

A computer program that taught itself to play poker has created nearly the best possible strategy for one version of the game, showing the value of techniques that may prove useful to help ...

Professional poker player Jason Les matches wits with Libratus, Carnegie Mellon University’s poker-playing AI program. (CMU via YouTube) You got to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em — ...

Like chess, checkers, Go and other games, the most popular form of poker has now been mastered by the cold, heartless machinations of a computer program. Jason Les, one of the world's premier poker ...

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Artificial intelligence reached a milestone recently. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon developed a program called Pluribus that can beat humans at six-player Texas hold ’em poker. Poker is a game of ...