AI Levels Up

Published: Feb. 3, 2017, 11:28 a.m.

Built by two computer science researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Libratus, as it is known, is an artificially intelligent system that runs on a supercomputer. For three weeks in a row, it played no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em.

The competition ended this week. Halfway through the competition, some of the human players started to feel like Liberates could see their cards.