AI beats professional poker players in Pittsburgh

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot that beat professional players in a 20-day poker tournament. The bot, named Libratus, beat four of the World's best Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'Em poker players at a casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Libratus won the tournament after 120,000 hands, winning with a lead of $1.7 million in virtual poker chips. Professor of computer science Tuomas Sandholm said: 'The best AI's ability to do strategic reasoning with imperfect information has now surpassed that of the best humans' The AI was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by Professor Tuomas Sandholm and his PhD student Noam Brown. They said that the AI's victory wasn't just a matter of luck - it was statistically significant.