| Title:
| Poker bots raise the stakes for human players
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| Description:
| the scene, at a nondescript booth of a Las Vegas convention centre in July this year, may to be a pivotal moment for the development of artificial intelligence. That's because at the Gaming Life Expo at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, a computer program called Polaris became the first to beat a team of world-class poker players, each of whom had previously won more than $1 million. Some may see the victory as the latest dismal step in silicon's march towards superiority over humans. Others will view it as an exciting move forward in artificial intelligence - a foretaste of the sophisticated tasks computers should be able to perform for us in years to come.
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| Author:
| Nic Fleming
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| Orig. Date:
| November 13, 2008
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| Source:
| New Scientist
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
| old news, new story
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:56:04 -0800
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Comment/Query/Broken link
Source: B.Buchanan <buchanan@cs.pitt.edu>
