{"id":96526,"date":"2019-01-18T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=96526"},"modified":"2019-01-18T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T19:39:48","slug":"artificial-intelligence-bot-that-solved-poker-gets-new-job-advising-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/artificial-intelligence-bot-that-solved-poker-gets-new-job-advising-the-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Bot that \u2018Solved\u2019 Poker Gets New Job Advising the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An A.I. bot that destroyed<\/a> some of the most accomplished poker players humanity had to offer at heads-up no limit Texas hold\u2019em in 2017 has heard the call of duty and enlisted in the US military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Libratus\"
Poker pro Daniel McAulay taking on Libratus in 2017. The machine roundly beat all four human competitors over 20 days of heads-up no-limit hold\u2019em, winning a theoretical $1.8 million. (Image: Chris Velazco\/Engadget) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to public records unearthed\nthis week by Wired<\/em>, the bot, \u201cLibratus,\u201d\nand its creators at Carnegie Melon University were granted a two-year contract in August of up to\n$10 million to support the US Army\u2019s Defense Innovation Unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nexact nature of Libratus\u2019 work at the Pentagon is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rise of the Machine<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The\nbot caused shockwaves around the poker community when it wiped the floor with human\nprofessional poker players Jason Les, Dong Kim, Jimmy Chou and Daniel McAulay in a 180,000-hand\nheads-up challenge. Libratus battered its sentient opponents 11 hours a day for\n20 days, winning a notional $1.8 million from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was shocking because, while computers\nhave been beating humans at chess since the 1980s, heads up no limit hold\u2019em\nwas supposed to be the game they would never master. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike chess, it is a game of incomplete\ninformation with no \u201cperfect strategy\u201d and, as such, humans always been able to\nadapt their play more effectively than computers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a similar contest in 2015, Libratus\u2019 predecessor, Claudico, came\nfifth out of five.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Libratus used machine learning and computational game theory<\/a>, playing trillions of poker hands against itself to compute an approximately perfect strategy. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t tell Libratus how to play poker,\u201d said Noam Brown of Carnegie Melon\u2019s Computer Science Department. \u201cWe gave it the rules of poker and said, \u2018learn on your own.\u2019 The bot started playing randomly but over the course of playing trillions of hands was able to refine its approach and arrive at a winning strategy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I see the bot\nbluff the humans, I\u2019m like, \u2018I didn\u2019t tell it to do that. I had no idea it was\neven capable of doing that.\u2019 It\u2019s satisfying to know I created something that\ncan do that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project\nMaven <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But Libratus was never meant to be only a poker bot — it just so happened that mastering the heads-up no limit game was the perfect testing ground for its talents. It\u2019s creators always said its future lay in other real-life applications where decisions have to be made using imperfect information. One such application was military strategy and planning, in war games and simulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, the Pentagon launched a program called Project Maven in response to then-US defense secretary James Mattis conviction that the military was falling behind the commercial sector in the use of A.I. and machine-learning technologies. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same year Russian\nPresident Vladimir Putin declared A.I. to be the future \u201cnot only for Russia,\nbut for all humankind.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt comes with\ncolossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever\nbecomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world,\u201d\nhe said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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