<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">N</span>o-limit Texas Hold<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Em is the most complex and popular form of poker and </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2 years ago</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> a </span>AI <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">was reported that</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">could</span> beat the best human player at <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">it, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">but in last Thursday's issue of the journal Science there was a development that was new for 3 reasons<span class="gmail_default">:</span></span></font><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">1) </font></span>Previously the AI could win only at one on one play but this new program <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(called </span>Pluribus<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">could play at a superhuman level against </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">multiple</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> human expert players and win</font><span class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, and that is much more difficult than one on one play.</font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">2) The program started out knowing almost nothing about Poker but taught itself to play at a superhuman level in 8 days and did it without human help.</font></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">3</span>) Unlike previous programs this <span class="gmail_default">one does not require massive computing power for the training or for the actual play, it</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> can all be done on a normal </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">home PC.</span></font></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font></span></div><div><font size="4">I</font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">t's stuff like this that makes me think my previous no compromise libertarian philosophy just isn't tenable anymore when dealing with economic issues.</font></span></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/07/10/science.aay2400">Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker</a> <br></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark  </font></div></div>