Heads-up limit Texas hold 'em poker solved by computer algorithm.Having to deal with incomplete information makes poker programs useful in everything from improving public security to helping doctors treat patients with diabetes.īowling's lab has long worked on poker and attracted worldwide attention in 2015 for developing Cepheus, a program that was unbeatable in two-handed, fixed-bet Texas Hold 'Em. Unlike games such as chess, no poker player knows what cards other players hold. Teaching poker to computers has been a popular tool in the artificial intelligence community for years.
'I think there's a lot of similarities to real human intuition,' said Michael Bowling of the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group. A computer program has learned to win at one of the most complex poker games by copying a very human impulse - trusting its gut.
