In a paper published on January 6, a team of collaborators from the University of Alberta, Charles University and the Czech Technical University claimed that their DeepStack AI is the “the first computer program to beat professional poker players in heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em”. That confident (but not yet peer-reviewed) proclamation on the heels of a string of victories against high-level human players — in total, 44,852 hands were played against 33 players recruited by the International Federation of Poker. Well, “string” might not be the right word; it sounds like the human players were basically routed.
via Engadget
