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Last year, the world witnessed the legendary Chinese Go player Lee Sedol be defeated by an artificial intelligence (AI) known as AlphaGo. This year, we’re now witnessing an AI known as Libratus absolutely destroy professional poker players.
The AI’s profit earnings so far? Over $700,000!
“Libratus is being used in this contest to play poker, an imperfect information game that requires the AI to bluff and correctly interpret misleading information to win. Ultimately programs like Libratus also could be used to negotiate business deals, set military strategy or plan a course of medical treatment — all cases that involve complicated decisions based on imperfect information.”– Byron Spice and Garrett Allen
Carnegie Mellon University
Photo Credit: Carnegie Mellon University
Libratus is the brainchild of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Teaming up with Rivers Casino, Libratus is going one-on-one with professionals in a game of poker from January 11 to the end of the month. Known as “Brains vs Artificial Intelligence,” the games are being livestreamed on Twitch, which you can remain updated on by heading over to Rivers Casino’s website.
Like AlphaGo, Libratus is showing off just how powerful AI has become. Where it goes from here is anybody’s guess.
FUTURE IMPLICATIONS
This is only the beginning for AI. In this game of poker, Libratus is showing an AI’s capability of bluffing and performing in imperfect games of chance. With this, all kinds of opportunities will arise for the future of AI. In 10-15 years time, there is a good chance that the world will witness the birth of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – an AI system that contains the same capacity as that of average human intelligence! From there, its intelligence capacity will only skyrocket passed us, becoming the dominant species here on Earth and likely elsewhere.
About the author
B.J. Murphy is the Editor and Social Media Manager of Serious Wonder. He is a futurist, philosopher, activist, author and poet. B.J. is an Affiliate Scholar for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) and an Ambassador for the robotics company Humai.
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