Very recently a new poker-playing artificial intelligence machine has been developed that is believed to be more adaptive to poker than humans. This new machine, "Polaris 2.0" is believed to soon surpass humans in the game of poker, and it was recently tested in Las Vegas against numerous poker pros.
Polaris played four rounds of Texas Hold 'Em against two separate teams, and Polaris proceeded to win 2 of the rounds, drawing and losing the other two. However this was after Polaris 1.0 was first released to play in public prior to this years new release. Humans ended up defeating Polaris 1.0, 3 out of 4 matches, but the release of 2.0 took everyone for a new ride.
Polaris was first developed for chess, and after beating chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, the research team moved onto developing a poker strategy. This new Polaris, "Polaris 2.0" soon became very famous around the University of Alberta. The major new innovations of this new Polaris were its ability to not allow humans to exploit any weaknesses found within the machine. And not to mention, the machine could learn from past experiences.
This means that the machine can identify the strategy that each individual poker player would use, then quickly switch its own strategy to counteract the opponents. The poker pros at the match said they have not seen a human do this before: switch strategies to counteract the opponent so efficiently.
Although Polaris 2.0 did beat the human teams 3 out of the 4 matches that took place in Las Vegas, many poker pros are still skeptic of the robots ability to play against higher ranking pros. One pro is quoted saying, "Over the next year or so there are going to have to be several rematches before everyone is convinced that humans have been surpassed by machines in poker."
Researches are also hoping to develop a new system to enable Polaris to play on a wider range of games, besides the sole Heads-up Texas Hold 'Em version it is now capable of. The researches are hoping to develop new algorithm systems that will allow the robot to be used in a variety of different aspects of technology, far away from poker.
So the real question is will these new robots truly be more adaptable to poker than humans by remembering literally every hand played and adapting? And if so, how will this affect the online poker world in the near future?
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