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I've always liked news about computers that beat humans at games. I recall the milestones; checkers, backgammon, chess, jeopardy, go, and now Texas hold-em poker ( the modern and most popular variant of poker nowadays ). When a computer won at Go not too long ago, I told my friends who play poker, "Ya know, very soon a computer will master this game too." They replied, "No way, you see a human has the unique ability to do this or that. It's a hundred years away". Well...
"Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world’s best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition, called “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh."
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/AI-beats-poker-pros.html
"Libratus, an artificial intelligence developed by Carnegie Mellon University, made history by defeating four of the world’s best professional poker players in a marathon 20-day poker competition, called “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh."
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/january/AI-beats-poker-pros.html