Meet the New AI Challenging Human Poker Pros

In 2015, several of the world's top poker players faced down a supercomputer-powered artificial intelligence named Claudico during a grueling 80,000 hands of no-limit Texas Hold'em. Beginning tomorrow, a rematch of humans versus AI will test whether humanity can hold its own against an even more capable challenger. The human margin of victory from the past event was not large enough to statistically prove whether humans or the Claudico AI were really the better poker players. This year's rematch features four human poker pros playing for a prize pot of $200,000 against an AI called Libratus in the "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante" event being held at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh starting on 11 January.