From: Aaron Davidson (ajd@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 08 1999 - 17:57:06 MDT
>> 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:-)
It is preciscely this challenge which I will be working on this summer. A
group of AI researchers at the University of Alberta (including one ex
Poker Pro) are attempting to develop a world-class poker playing program.
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/
A module that examined camera-feed images to analyze opponent's poker-faces
would certainly be an advantage ;-). The computer has the ultimate
poker-face.
--Aaron
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