No Human Could Do That: Is AI Becoming Too Alien?

In 2019, five of the top poker players in the world sat down in a casino to play poker against a computer. Over the course of the game they lost big -- some $1.7 million (€1.77 million) -- to a poker bot called Pluribus. It was the first time an artificial-intelligence (AI) program beat elite human players at a game of more than two players. In a post-game interview, the players were asked how they felt about losing to a computer. Pluribus, they said, ʺbluffed really well.