Poker-playing program knows when to fold 'em: Heads-up limit for hold 'em poker solved
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 18:30
in Mathematics & Economics
For over a half-century, games have been test beds for new ideas in Artificial Intelligence and the resulting successes have marked significant milestones: Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in chess, and Watson defeated Jennings and Rutter on Jeopardy! However, defeating top human players is not the same as actually solving a game, and for the first time researchers have essentially solved heads-up limit hold 'em poker.