AI now masters six-player poker

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5 pointsanon1m0us3 comments

If you haven't played poker, this is significant.

Unlike Chess, Go and almost all board games, poker is a game of incomplete information. You don't know what cards your opponents are holding.

Plus, there are multiple opponents.

This computer program, named Pluribus, beat 6 players who at that time had won over a million dollars.

Not only that, the (current) global demand for poker is quite robust. You have probably tens of thousands of people who are willing to risk tens of thousands of dollars per year for a chance to walk away with a liveable income.

If this AI is able to dominate the competition, at a certain point the punters will stop risking their money and move on to greener pastures like esports or etc. It would be the end of a semi legitimate industry that lots of people are using for ad-hoc, on demand income from a computer.

What does it means for not poker players?

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