(Click Here for the Latest Online Poker News Stories)
Copyright © 2007 Vancouver Sun
HEADLINE: Top poker
players to take on machines
Body:
Poker faces won't
matter when top players participate in the first man-machine poker
championship at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver this week.
Players Phil Laak and Ali Eslami will compete in four sessions
of Texas
Hold'em against Polaris, a computer program developed by the
University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group.
Jonathan Schaeffer, a team leader with the program, said he believes
the computer has enough artificial intelligence to compete with
the human poker players.
The question is where do the best humans stand in relation to
the best computers? Is mankind safe for a few years?" he
said. "I'm not betting we're going to win, but it'll be close."
The games will run at noon and 6 p.m. today and Tuesday in Hyatt
Regency room F.
Noble
Poker Bonus
Related: See U.S.
Poker
Article
downloaded from the World Wide Web on July 23, 2007: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews
/story.html?id=fca45a0e-4b2a-40bb-a428-8233bc3b5d84 |
(Click Here for the Latest Online Poker News Stories)
|
