Quote from: MadZ on December 25, 2017, 06:25:10 PM

Quote from: Hell-raiser on December 25, 2017, 07:52:04 AM

Quote from: MadZ on December 24, 2017, 11:11:40 PM

Perhaps I missed it in the article, but these hands were played online, not live, right?

Also, I think it's pretty interesting that it wasn't until the 30k hand mark that the AI started to become consistently profitable, and it wasn't until 80k hands played that this profitably was statistically greater than 0. I think this suggests that the AI's ability to win isn't from some sort fundamentally better strategy against all opppnents, rather, its improved ability to learn from opponents and exploit them over a large sample size. This bot can't just sit down at a random online table and start crushing, which is a good thing.

Yeah, it may well be so for the first time, but after a few months of continuous playing the AI should be able to squash all competition at once, at the first game. It is basically the same with chess, though AI doesn't seem to be used there so much. Chess bots use, for example, opening and endgame databases so they don't need to play every game from a cold start, so to speak. This roughly corresponds to the level of AI "expertise" in playing poker acquired after a number of games.

This is what we humans call experience.

True, it seems from the article that the AI also improved in performance against other AI over time. One thing I will say is that I'm sure the players' knowledge that they were playing against an AI probably had some influence on their playstyle. Whether that means playing tighter or more aggressively, I'm not sure, but I know I'd play differently against an AI than a human opponent (probably more aggressively, since you have much less fold equity against bad players who will call with marginal hands, and I doubt an AI would do this). Regardless, I wonder if the results would be the same if players were unaware their opponent wasn't human.

As long as you can predict move on AI, I do not think that it will be difficult thing to do. But the problem here is how are we going to predict it if many inputs for the AI including face detector, how to react if A using this kind of face, what move should the AI takes. I do not think that it is really easy to know that it is AI or not if the bot is pro like libratus