April 17, 2017
A successor to the Carnegie Mellon University’s Libratus artificial intelligence poker-playing program, dubbed Lengpudashi has continued to prove the ascendency of AI in a fresh competition in China. Lengpudashi, which translates from Chinese as “cold Poker Master”, took on a six man team titled Team Dragon led by experienced Chinese player and venture capitalist Alan […]
April 7, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) artificial intelligence computer program Libratus will be showcased during a China exhibition with a Winner-Take-All prize of $290,000. AI computer programmer Libratus exceeded expectation when it convincingly bested its human rivals in the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” 20-day poker contest between four human players (see previous InfoPowa reports) […]
February 1, 2017
The final numbers on the epic “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” 20-day poker contest between four human players and AI computer program Libratus are now in, confirming that the computer convincingly bested its human rivals, taking over $1.766 million from them over 120,000 hands. Once the last of the 120,000 hands of Heads-up, […]
January 31, 2017
The 20-day competition between the University of Carnegie Mellon’s latest poker-playing computer program, Libratus, and poker pros Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou and Daniel McCauley has ended in a resounding victory for the computer, which completed the 120,000 hands with a more than $1.5 million chip lead over the humans. In a Pittsburgh land […]
January 25, 2017
The scientifically monitored poker competition between four respected professional poker players and Carnegie Mellon University’s Libratus artificial intelligence computer program continued to illustrate this week how far the technology has progressed over previous man vs. computer contests. Poker pros Jimmy Chou, Dong Kim, Jason Les and Daniel McAulay are struggling to contain the program, which […]
January 20, 2017
The poker competition pitting four poker professionals against the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science program Libratus (see previous reports) is reportedly not going well for the humans, with the AI player $471,600 ahead of its human opponents at the ten-day half way mark of the 20-day contest. With 40,340 hands played (about a third […]