Poker Driving Artificial Intelligence Research 212
J-Hawker writes "The Canadian Press has a story about a University of Alberta team that is using Texas Hold-'em to study artificial intelligence. Poker seems to be a much more useful game for this research than chess. From the article: 'Poker has what are currently some of the biggest challenges to (artificial intelligence) systems, and uncertainty is the primary hurdle that we're facing,' said Michael Bowling, adding that the University of Alberta program was able to use its opponents' actions to infer certain things about their hands. 'The same techniques, the same principles that we're developing to build poker systems are the same principles that can be applied to many other problems. The nice thing about chess as a property of the game is what we call perfect information. You look at the board, you know where all the pieces are, you know whose turn it is — you have complete knowledge of the game,' he said. 'But in the real world, knowing everything is just so rare. Everything we do all day long is all about partial information. So poker's much more representative of what the real world's like, and in that sense it becomes a much harder problem.'"
Well... (Score:0, Funny)
poker better represents the worlds than chess (Score:1, Funny)
As in, the top 2% have all the money and the rest of the people are goatsexd.
Everything I know I learned from Star Trek (Score:3, Funny)
Kirk had to 'splain the same thing to Spock at least once...(Re: Episode #3, "The Corbomite Maneuver")
Re:This is not good ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AI doesn't work for Spades! (Score:1, Funny)
1) Strip pocker fembot (x5)
2) Make them play against each-other while you play with yourself
3)
4) Profit? (And see if indeed The AI is able to infer certain things about your hands