Artificial Intelligence Poker Champ Bluffs Its Way to $1.7 Million

Libratus, an artificial intelligence, just beat the world's top poker players by a margin of $1.7 million. This is the second time a system from his lab has won a poker world championship, and the first time in the most difficult "heads up / no limit" version of the imperfect information game. This isn't Sandholm's first time building a system that beats the market. His background includes founding CombineNet. He's also proud that his algorithms run the UNOS kidney exchange, which covers 2/3 of the U.S. market for kidney transplants.