Poker match shows off Pittsburgh's artificial intelligence dominance in China

As expected, the latest poker-playing bot powered by an artificial intelligence designed by a duo from Carnegie Mellon University beat a team of some of the best poker players in China. Lengpudashi, the AI developed by Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown, a graduate student at CMU, finished five days of Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold'em with nearly $800,000 in chips and walked away with $290,000. "We all knew the outcome. There was little chance for the humans," said Kai-Fu Lee, head of Sinovation Ventures, a Chinese venture capital firm that organized the winner-take-all exhibition match in Hainan, China. Lee, himself a CMU alum who worked on speech recognition in Pittsburgh in the 1990s, challenged Lengpudashi to about 30 hands in a celebrity match during the exhibition.