Saturday, July 12, 2008

Computer beats human experts at poker


WASHINGTON — Human pride took a hit 11 years ago when IBM's Big Blue computer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Now it's poker players' turn to be humiliated by a machine.
A computer system called Polaris outperformed some of the world's top players last weekend at a human-vs.-machine competition in Las Vegas. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - PetsMart