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Jonathan Schaeffer Answers 2 Questions About Polaris the Poker Bot

                                                                                    Yesterday I wrote a post about the upcoming Texas Hold’em match (July 23 and 24) between Polaris, the  poker-playing computer programmed by the computer science team at University of Alberta, and two humans, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami.  The post received a question from Sparky about where the name ’Polaris’ comes from.  I couldn’t find an answer to this [...]

What Does it Mean if Computers are Better at Poker than Humans?

                                                                             Poker is like real life.  You have to make decisions on the basis of imperfect knowledge and you often have to bluff in order to achieve your goals.   One might think that computers cannot do these things, or at least do these things as well as humans can.   On July 23 and 24, we [...]

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