Cybersecurity
Poker-Playing Engineers Take on AI Machine - And Get Thrashed
- Latest version of Libratus defeats group of local investors
- Carnegie Mellon program’s latest version called Lengpudashi
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Alan Du, a venture capitalist and World Series of Poker veteran, was in his fifth day of matching wits against his stone-cold opponent -- and his losses were piling up.
His rival was literally inhuman. That’s because Du went up against “Lengpudashi:” an updated version of the Libratus artificial intelligence program that achieved a major milestone by besting four of the world’s best poker pros in January. Housed within a supercomputing center near Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, its name, intended to resemble its English moniker, fittingly translates into “cold poker master.”