14 December 2007 ~ 1 Comment

The Unabomber versus The Computer: Who Wins?

From Dr Pauly:
Phil “Unabomber” Laak and Eli Eslami have been involved in a 4 session heads up poker match against the best poker playing bot to date. Polaris is the Artificial Intelligence poker playing masterpiece from the minds at the University of Alberta. It is currently in Vancouver Canada as one of the feature events [...]

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12 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Poker Playing Robots Destroy All Humans!

Your next opponent at the online poker, blackjack, or baccarat table may not be who you think. In fact, they may not even be human.
Could be a robot. A blood-thirsty, human-destroying robot. Nah, just kidding… or am I?
Evan Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, computer scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have created [...]

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