In the battle against Claudico, the human players racked up more than $700,000 over 80,000 hands, winning almost every day of the tournament. We just ran over Claudico, bluffed it everywhere, but this time I felt like it was the other way around.' 'It was about halfway through the challenge I knew we wouldn't come back,' said Kim.

The 28-year old, originally from Seattle, had also participated in a similar poker tournament with another AI machine built by CMU in 2015, named Claudico. That's just the beginning.'ĭong Kim, one of the four top poker players who participated in the tournament, echoed the statement. 'Imagine that your smartphone will someday be able to negotiate the best price on a new car for you.

'Developing an AI that can do that successfully is a tremendous step forward scientifically and has numerous applications,” he said. 'The computer can't win at poker if it can't bluff,' said Frank Pfenning, head of the Computer Science Department at CMU. One of the main reasons for Libratus' victory was the machine's ability outbluff humans. 'It can be used in any situation where information is incomplete including business negotiation, military strategy, cybersecurity and medical treatment,' Sandholm said. The victory prompted inquiries from companies all over the world seeking to use Libratus' algorithm for problem solving.

'The best AI's ability to do strategic reasoning with imperfect information has now surpassed that of the best humans,' Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science at CMU who created Libratus with a Ph.D. While machines have beaten humans over the last two decades in chess, checkers, and most recently in the ancient game of Go, Libratus' victory is significant because poker is an imperfect information game - similar to the real world where not all problems are laid out and the difficulty in figuring out human behavior is one of the main reasons why it was considered immune to machines. Libratus, an AI built by Carnegie Mellon University, racked up over $1.7 million worth of chips against four of the top professional poker players in the world in a 20-day marathon poker tournament that ended Tuesday in Philadelphia. Artificial intelligence has made history by beating humans in poker for the first time, the last remaining game in which humans had managed to maintain the upper hand.

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