Poker Driving Artificial Intelligence Research

technology.sympatico.msn.ca — Poker seems to be much more useful for AI research than chess, according to a team of researchers at the University of Alberta. Chess represents perfect information, while poker represents partial information, which mimics real life, so is more applicable to real life problems. The team went undefeated in two Poker AI tournaments recently. Aug 21, 2006 View in Crawl 4