Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are going all in on their computer program competing with some of the world's best professional poker players.
Computer science professor Tuomas Sandholm and researchers Sam Ganzfried and Noam Brown are taking poker-playing computer program Claudico to Rivers Casino on Friday.
Claudico — the Latin word for limp, as in limping in to a bet — will take on Doug Polk, Dong Kim, Bjorn Li and Jason Les. They'll split a prize purse of $100,000.
The computer will play 80,000 hands of Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold 'em in the two-week tournament.
Sandholm has led the research since 2004.
He says having computers beat humans in poker has been their goal. He says the numerous unknown variables is the perfect test for artificial intelligence.
