{"id":15120,"date":"2015-04-26T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2015-04-26T13:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:48:46","slug":"brains-vs-artificial-intelligence-carnegie-mellon-computer-faces-poker-pros-in-epic-no-limit-texas-holdem-competition-carnegie-mellon-news-carnegie-mellon-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15120","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon Computer Faces Poker Pros in Epic No-Limit Texas Hold\u2019Em Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a contest that echoes Deep Blue\u2019s chess victory over Garry Kasparov and Watson beating two Jeopardy! Champions, computer poker software developed at Carnegie Mellon University will challenge four of the world\u2019s best professional poker players in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/brains-vs-ai\">\u201cBrains Vs. Artificial Intelligence\u201d<\/a> competition beginning April 24 at Rivers Casino.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Over the course of two weeks, the CMU computer program, Claudico, will play 20,000 hands of Heads-Up No-limit Texas Hold\u2019em with each of the four poker pros. The pros \u2014 Doug Polk, Dong Kim, Bjorn Li and Jason Les \u2014 will receive appearance fees derived from a prize purse of $100,000 donated by Microsoft Research and by Rivers Casino. The Carnegie Mellon scientists will compete for something more precious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/news\/stories\/archives\/2015\/april\/computer-faces-poker-pros.html\">Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Carnegie Mellon Computer Faces Poker Pros in Epic No-Limit Texas Hold\u2019Em Competition-Carnegie Mellon News &#8211; Carnegie Mellon University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cComputing the world\u2019s strongest strategies for this game was a major achievement \u2014 with the algorithms having future applications in business, military, cybersecurity and medical arenas,\u201d Sandholm said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a contest that echoes Deep Blue\u2019s chess victory over Garry Kasparov and Watson beating two Jeopardy! Champions, computer poker software developed at Carnegie Mellon University will challenge four of the world\u2019s best professional poker players in a \u201cBrains Vs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[543,611,100,50],"class_list":["post-15120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-cmu","tag-interesting-research","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15123,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}