These days, the bots playing poker can't bluff convincingly. \"Computers are programmed to perform the best strategy, but bluffing is based on unexpected, illogical actions,\" says Evan Hurwitz, a computer scientist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.<\/p>
Now Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations.<\/p>
Then the researchers decided to play Aiden against three other similarly trained bots to see what would happen. \"They began to develop their own personalities - either aggressive or conservative - depending on their past successes,\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These days, the bots playing poker can't bluff convincingly. \"Computers are programmed to perform the best strategy, but bluffing is based on unexpected, illogical actions,\" says Evan Hurwitz, a computer scientist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.Now … Continue reading