>> The system's creators said it is as accurate as a trained psychologist and
>> capture and identify subliminal expressions that pass over a face
>>momentarily
>> before a "posed" expression is consciously assumed. That makes the
>>technology
>> potentially applicable as a lie detector.
>
>Despite their success in chess, nobody has yet made a computer that
>can come anywhere close to even a moderately good human in poker.
>Sounds like this bulwark of human skill is falling too. (For those
>of you who believe that poker is a game of chance, please bring
>your money to Sacramento and I will demonstrate otherwise:-)
I'm just an undergrad summer student, so my input will no doubt be limited. It certainly is a tough problem -- the incomplete information, bluffing, and opponent modelling are much trickier tasks than closed information games such as chess.
If any group can do it it will be these guys though -- Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, the lead researcher, has already conquered checkers with his famous 'chinook' program, the world champion checkers player.
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/
--Aaron
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