Libratus wins HPCWire award for defeating the very best HU NLHE humans

Artificial Intelligence, Libratus, and the Pittsburgh supercomputer Bridges were amongst the award winners at the SC17 supercomputing conference in Denver, including one for the famous victory over Jason Les and co in January.

You know the world is changing faster than a salt coated slug turning to mush when professional poker players begin suggesting that the best poker player in the world is an algorithm.

The algorithm in question goes by the name Libratus, and at the turn of the year, it beat Dong Kim, Jason Les, Jimmy Chou (the poker player, not the high heel guy), and Daniel McAulay, four of the most distinguished heads-up strategists in the business. Libratus didn’t just win; it annihilated the competition winning by a margin of $1.76m over 120,000 hands.

Libratus was the first artificial intelligence (AI) to pair with the Pittsburgh supercomputer Bridges to beat the top humans in Texas No-Limit Hold’em, the Holy Grail in the AI community when it comes to solving games of incomplete information.