Robots Learning to Play Poker (for Improved Cybersecurity)
Robots have already bested humans in chess and Jeopardy; now, developers are trying to create the next poker master.
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The robots are winning. IBM’s Watson has beat down competitors in Jeopardy and Deep Blue famously won a chess match against Garry Kasparov, a grandmaster. Tanya Lewis from LiveScience writes that developers may be able to add poker to the list.
It’s not entirely inconceivable. As Jon Iwata, senior VP of Marketing and Communications at IBM, explained in his interview with Big Think, the wonder of Watson is that it can learn — it takes mounds of information and organizes it.
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