Artificial intelligence has now pretty much conquered poker

Called Pluribus, the AI is a formidable opponent at six-player no-limit Texas Hold’em

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UPPING THE ANTE  For the first time, a computer has outplayed elite human professionals at multiplayer poker. 

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Artificial intelligence has passed the last major milestone in mastering poker: six-player no-limit Texas Hold’em.

Games like poker, with hidden cards and players who bluff, present a greater challenge to AI than games where every player can see the whole board. Over the last few years, computers have become aces at increasingly complicated forms of one-on-one