After holding their initial man-versus-machine poker tournament in April of 2015, computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania will be at it again later this month with the Brains Versus Artificial Intelligence: Upping The Ante event.
Due to take place from January 11 at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, the 20-day tournament will see four professional poker players in Jason Les, Dong Kim, Daniel McAulay and Jimmy Chou take on the Libratus computer program in 120,000 hands of heads-up no-limit Texas hold‘em.
Although the laptop-utilizing players will be vying for a share of a $200,000 prize purse, the goal for Carnegie Mellon University scientists is to set a new benchmark in the pursuit of artificial intelligence.
“Since the earliest days of …