Evil genius? July 22, 2005
Posted by Aaron in : News , trackbackFirst there was Deep Blue trying to defeat mankind at chess, now there is PokerProbot trying to best mankind at poker. It failed but that doesn’t mean it didn’t impress the current champion (full text)….
“It [PokerProbot] would for sure make money online,” Laak (who’s known as “the Unabomber” for his habit of hiding emotions behind sunglasses and a hooded sweatshirt). In simpler versions of Texas hold ‘em with set betting limits “bots are better than the average person,” Laak told the Los Angeles Times. He added that anyone clever enough to program a poker program that can beat a human is smart enough to create a pokerbot that would evade easy detection.
Better than the average person at simple texas hold’em eh? I think I know how to fund further development, I’ll teach it to play at all those gambling sites that spammers are trying to force links into my site about. Yes. That idea makes me grin. I would feel perfectly justified in fighting their abuse of technology (various spam vectors) with this application of technology.
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