AI Algorithm From Facebook Can Play Chess & Poker With Equal Ease

In recent news, the research team at Facebook has introduced a general AI bot, ReBeL that can play both perfect information, such as chess and imperfect information games like poker with equal ease, using reinforcement learning. As the company says, it is a big step towards creating a general AI algorithm that could perform well over a range of games. The researchers believe that this algorithm will have real-world applications, including dealing with negotiations, fraud detection, and even cybersecurity. AlphaZero from DeepMind rapidly caught the fancy of the AI research community when it was released back in 2017. An AI-based program that could play games like chess, shogi, and Go is not unheard of, but AlphaZero is different as it uses reinforcement learning with search (RL Search) to'learn on its own' by mimicking the world-class players.