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Re:No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at ... by yalogin on Thursday July 11, 2019 @07:10PM (#20416728)
For someone not in the AI field, can you explain why AI is needed and an elaborate code with conditional blocks is not enough? Where does AI fit in with a poker game.
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Re:No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at ... by b_tterc_p on Thursday July 11, 2019 @07:19PM (#20416780)
Conditional blocks would work, but it would be an impossibly detailed and granular tree to setup. The AI component simply helps you arrive at the decisions to create the complex tree.
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