Computer beat 11 pro poker players using 'intuition'

Don't be alarmed, but a computer just beat 11 professional poker players in a 3,000 hand match of the incredibly complex Texas Hold'em, using'intuition'. DeepStack is the first computer programme to outplay humans at the game, which it played over a period of four weeks. Card players tend to rely on microexpressions – tiny subconscious flashes of emotion across the face that last no longer than a quarter of a second. The computer, which was developed by scientists at the University of Alberta, Charles University in Prague and Czech Technical University, honed its'intuition' through deep learning – allowing it to reassess its strategy with each move. Professor Michael Bowling, from Alberta, said: 'Poker has been a longstanding challenge problem in artificial intelligence.