Big congratulations to the University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group and their collaborater Oskari Tammelin, who announced this week that their program Cepheus has essentially solved heads up limit hold ’em. Nate and I interviewed the CPRG team last year, and we hope to speak to them again soon about their latest accomplishment. You can learn more about Cepheus and even play against it at http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/.
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“Cepheus accomplished this goal with no human expert help.”
Lately we have plenty of very successful AI programs(eg.language translation) build with no human expert(native speaker) help.
All you need is an expert in AI and programmers who are really bricklayers in such types of software projects.
In classical software project you need a domain experts and programmers who become almost experts for the domain because they have to implement businesses rules.
This article reminds me S. Hawking words:”The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Hawking -the top theoretical physicist, who has the motor neurone disease is using advanced AI developed by Intel to communicate.
I hope you speak to them again soon too.
I have a sample question for them:
There is a consensus among “experts” that poker is very much about threat,bluff,deception.
Is Cepheus better at the “human” capabilities of threat, bluff and deception?.
or
Or maybe humans falsely believe that the game is about one thing, but is really about another one.