{"id":36106,"date":"2017-04-14T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:16:07","slug":"carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University AI beats top Chinese poker players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none; class=\"\" title=\"AI vs Chinese poker players\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"391\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><b>Carnegie Mellon University professor Tuomas Sandholm talks to Kai-Fu Lee, head of Sinovation Ventures, a Chinese venture capital firm, as Lee plays poker against Lengpudashi AI (credit: Sinovation Ventures)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) triumphed over human poker players again (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/carnegie-mellon-ai-beats-t\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon AI beats top poker pros \u2014 a first <\/a>\u201c), as a computer sprogram developed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers beat six Chinese players by a total of $792,327 in virtual chips during a five-day, 36,000-hand exhibition that ended today (April 10, 2017) in Hainan, China.<\/p>\n<p>The AI software program, called Lengpudashi (\u201ccold poker master\u201d) is a version of Libratus, the CMU AI that beat four top poker professionals during a 20-day, 120,000-hand Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold\u2019em competition in January in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beats-top-chinese-poker-players\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/carnegie-mellon-university-ai-beat...er-players<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56511,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions\/56511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}