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A Poker-Playing Robot Goes to Work for the Pentagon

A Poker-Playing Robot Goes to Work for the Pentagon

A Poker-Playing Robot Goes to Work for the Pentagon

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

January 16, 20197m 2s

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Show Notes

In 2017, a poker bot called Libratus made headlines when it roundly defeated four top human players at no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. Now, Libratus’s technology is being adapted to take on opponents of a different kind—in service of the US military. Libratus—Latin for balanced—was created by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University to test ideas for automated decision-making based on game theory.

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