AIs are in our casinos, taking our money!
Did you catch the news about the Second Man-Machine Poker Competition? Once more man has been defeated by the machine, this time in a game of Texas Hold ‘em!
So just how did this trumped up piece of software so easily defeat it’s human creators?
“There are two really big changes in Polaris over last year,” said professor Michael Bowling, who supervised graduate students who programmed Polaris. “First of all, our poker model is much expanded over last year–its much harder for humans to exploit weaknesses. And secondly, we have added an element of learning, where Polaris identifies which common poker stratagy a human is using and switches its own strategy to counter. This complicated the human players ability to compare notes, since Polaris chose a different strategy to use against each of the humans it played,” Bowling said.
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One algorithm, called counter-factual regret, monitored the outcome of hands lost by Polaris and what could have been done to change the outcome. Polaris could then watch for similar circumstances and adjust more effectively.
They’re LEARNING!
Which brings us to this man, lured by the promise of ca$h, that the AIs might steal his tasty poker-skillz:
Freedom fighter or collaborator? You be the judge!
via Uncertain Times.
For starters, the machine is sure that “it’s” means “it is” while “its” is the possessive form of “it.”