AI flushed by poker success but athletes can reap benefits of virtual reality | Sean Ingle

Jul 15, 2019

After a machine beat poker players hands down, athletes can take comfort from the fact that computer technology could help them significantly improve their performance

And still the machines rise. First chess was conquered. Then Go. Now, as revealed in the journal Science last week, artificial intelligence has cracked the most popular form of poker, six-player No-Limit Texas Hold’Em, by self-playing thousands of hands against itself to learn which strategies worked – and then applying them in real games against professionals.

The results were startling. After playing 10,000 hands of poker against more than a dozen top pros across 12 days, the Pluribus – a program designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI – would have made about $1,000 an hour if playing with $1 chips, researchers calculated.

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