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Duo beat computer program in poker event
 July 26, 2007, 3:35 pm (4 years ago)The day when a machine can out think a man has not arrived, at least not yet.
Poker players Ali Eslami and Phil Laak pitted their wits against a computer at the first $50,000 Man-Machine Poker Championship in Canada, and won.
The game, which is set to become an annual event, at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in Vancouver.
Eslami and Laak pitted their wits against a computer program named Polaris, which was developed by the University of Alberta’s Department of Computing Science. It took two days and 2,000 of poker to decide a winner, but in the end the human team triumphed.
There were two sessions of poker played on each of the two days. The computer program got off to a good start, drawing the first session and winning the second. However, as the competition progressed the humans began to get a foothold and battled hard to secure wins in the final two sessions.
Although his computer program failed to win, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, Chair of the University of Alberta’s Department of Computing Science and a team leader of the Polaris program, was delighted with the event and expressed his hope that it will become a regular event.
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