Thursday, July 20, 2006

Computer learns to play poker - and wins!

I just read an interesting article 9n the Pittsburg PA "Post-gazette.com Business News".  It seems that there is an IBM "super-computer" in the School of Computer Science Data Center that has not only beaten other computer programs playing games of "Texas Hold 'em", but it's also forced some expert human players to fold their hands!

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Andrew Gilpin, a CMU doctoral student in computer science have been working on this program for the last 2 1/2 years.  Their latest program called "GS1" plays the more complex game of seven-card Texas Hold 'em, and their paper was published last summer for the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in Boston.

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