POKER ROBOT 3 HUMANS 2
11 July 2008
University of Alberta software beats the coaches
The promised match between a University of Alberta poker
program and seven human poker coaches from StoxPoker.com
(see previous InfoPowa report) took place this week at
the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas...and the humans
lost.
The University has a strong background in developing
poker programs as part of its development of artificial
intelligence for computer applications. Poker apparently
contains most of the challenge elements ideal for
developments of this nature.
The man versus machine competition was held at the Rio
All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and saw Alberta
U's Polaris II post a record of three wins, two losses
and a draw against the human poker players in heads-up
matches.
The first man vs. machine competition in Vancouver last
year saw predecessor Polaris I narrowly defeated by Phil
Laak and Tony Esfandiari, two top poker professionals
(see previous InfoPowa report). To prepare this year’s
event, the Alberta scientists made modifications to the
computer's ability to reason and also altered its
capacity to learn and adapt to its human opponents.
IJay Palansky played in two of the matches and commented
that that Polaris II made some bizarre moves that a
human would never make. Matt Hawrilenko, who played in
the final match, agreed but stated that Polaris II's win
was scary for the future of head-to-head poker.
"For those of us who make our incomes largely from
playing heads-up games, whether computers are ready to
beat us or not, they're certainly ready to beat some of
our opponents," said Hawrilenko.
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