I liked this article. Especially the end bit on poker since teaching my laptop to play poker (NL Holdem) is a bit of hobby of mine. Its learning very well and is already much better than me (I am only above average from a random sample of humans, so relatively weak).
My goal is to have it at least not lose badly vs my professional high stakes friend heads up. It does quite well against weaker players... Its not a rule based player, and my favourite bit is I can actually see it get better per game. It makes mistakes and learns from them. Poker is a very good place to try machine learning algos and also make practical use of game theory since it can't be effectively brute forced. Ive been iteratively bootstrapping newer more complex AI components on top of the previous bases. wrote it in F#.
There are so many people doing this that I can't play Holdem online anymore! I'm not good enough to beat the decent bots today, they have improved massively over the last 5 years.
My goal is to have it at least not lose badly vs my professional high stakes friend heads up. It does quite well against weaker players... Its not a rule based player, and my favourite bit is I can actually see it get better per game. It makes mistakes and learns from them. Poker is a very good place to try machine learning algos and also make practical use of game theory since it can't be effectively brute forced. Ive been iteratively bootstrapping newer more complex AI components on top of the previous bases. wrote it in F#.