BRAINS VS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CARNEGIE MELLON COMPUTER FACES POKER PROS IN EPIC NO-LIMIT TEXAS HOLD’EM COMPETITION
80,000 Hands Will Be Played in Two-week Contest at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh
By Ken Walters / CMU / 412-268-1151 / walters1@andrew.cmu.eduand Emily Watts / For Rivers Casino / 717-507-3754 / emily@hornercom.com
In a contest that echoes Deep Blue’s chess victory over Garry Kasparov and Watson beating two Jeopardy! Champions, computer poker software developed at Carnegie Mellon University will challenge four of the world’s best professional poker players in a “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” competition beginning April 24 at Rivers Casino.
Over the course of two weeks, the CMU computer program, Claudico, will play 20,000 hands of Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold’em with each of the four poker pros. The pros — Doug Polk, Dong Kim, Bjorn Li and Jason Les — will receive appearance fees derived from a prize purse of $100,000 donated by Microsoft Research and by Rivers Casino. The Carnegie Mellon scientists will compete for something more precious.
“Poker is now a benchmark for artificial intelligence research, just as chess once was,” said Tuomas Sandholm, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon who has led development of Claudico. “It’s a game of exceeding complexity that requires a machine to make decisions based on incomplete and often misleading information, thanks to bluffing, slow play and other decoys. And to win, the machine has to out-smart its human opponents.
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