Artificial Intelligence won a confident victory over the best poker players

In early 2017, an unusual poker experiment began: the artificial mind had to fight the best players in the world. Despite the beginning of the experiment successful for AI, the best poker players did not want to give up, but all their attempts were futile: the artificial intelligence was on several "heads" above its living rivals.

A confident victory was won by the Libratus system, developed by specialists from the Carnegie-Mellon University. During the tournament "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante, which was held from 11 to 30 January 2017 in Pittsburgh on the basis of the Rivers Casino, Libratus played more than 120 hands in Texas Hold'em, and the won amount was $ 1,766,250. The number of game options when playing Texas Hold'em - more than 10 in 160 degrees. Calculate this number of combinations by force is not every computer. What can we say about man!

Developers Libratus Thomas Sandholm and Noam Brown say that they "demonstrated the possibility of creating artificial intelligence, able to draw conclusions and make strategic decisions based on incomplete information, then, as previously thought, only people had. The computer can not win poker if it can not effectively bluff. The creation of artificial intelligence, capable of this, is a huge step in the field of information technology. It is likely that due to such abilities your smartphone in the near future will be able to bargain with the seller the most favorable price for a new car. In addition, the system is also capable of self-learning. After the match Libratus performed a thorough analysis of each stage of the game, determined its effectiveness and made appropriate adjustments to its set of strategies. And after a while we even noticed a significant reduction in the load on our supercomputer. "

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The enormous computing power of AI was made possible by using the Bridges supercomputer. For the work of Libratus, the capacity of 600 computing nodes was allocated, the total capacity of which is 1.35 Pflops, which is approximately 8000 times higher than the computing power of an expensive gaming PC, and the amount of RAM allocated for the neural network of AI was 274 terabytes.

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