At the beginning of 2017 began an unusual experiment in the game of poker: artificial intelligence had to fight with the best players in the world. Despite the successful start of the experiment for AI, the best poker players did not want to give up, but all their attempts were in vain: artificial intelligence was a few "goals" above their live rivals.
The Libratus system, developed by specialists from Carnegie Mellon University, won a landslide victory. During the tournament "Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante", held from 11 to 30 January 2017 in Pittsburgh on the basis of Rivers casino, Libratus played more than 120
hands in Texas hold'em, and the amount won was $ 1,766,250. The number of game options when playing Texas hold'em-more than 10 to 160 degrees. Not every computer can calculate such a number of combinations. What can we say about a person!
Libratus developers Thomas Sandholm and Noam brown say they "demonstrated the ability to create artificial intelligence capable of drawing conclusions and making strategic decisions based on incomplete information, something that was previously thought to be possessed only by humans. A computer can't win poker if it can't
bluff effectively. The creation of artificial intelligence capable of this is a huge step in the field of information technology. It is likely that thanks to such abilities, your smartphone in the near future will be able to bargain with the seller the best price for a new car. In addition, the system is capable of self-learning. After the match, Libratus made a thorough analysis of each stage of the game, determined its effectiveness and made appropriate adjustments to its set of strategies. And after a while, we even noticed a significant reduction in the load on our supercomputer."
Huge computing power of AI became possible due to the use of supercomputer Bridges. For Libratus operation, the power of 600 computing nodes was allocated, the total power of which is 1.35 Pflops, which is approximately 8000 times higher than the computing power of an expensive gaming PC, and the amount of RAM allocated for the AI neural network was 274 terabytes.