Can AI beat world champions at poker ?
AI defeated elite human poker professionals in multiplayer no-limit Texas Hold’em, despite bluffing, incomplete information, and psychological gameplay.
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A chronological overview of AI inflection points and the increasing abilities of AI over time.
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AI can generate faces of people who never existed, complete with realistic skin textures, lighting, and imperfections that fool most observers.
DeepMind's AlphaStar reached Grandmaster level on the European ladder, beating professional players in long, real-time strategy games. --- AI systems have mad...
A solved problem since the 2017 Stanford Dogs benchmark. Now a default in every camera roll. --- Current AI systems can identify dog breeds from photos with a...
Modern face-recognition systems handle decades of aging within reasonable error bounds. Not perfect at extreme ranges, but routinely good. --- Current AI syst...
Specialised hardware crossed the half-second mark in 2018. Modern record holders live in single-digit hundredths. --- Robots have been able to solve a Rubik's...
AI systems now identify suspicious transactions and financial fraud patterns in milliseconds across billions of payments globally.
AlphaZero learned chess from scratch in four hours and crushed Stockfish, the previous king of computer chess. The end of the human-vs-engine era. --- AI has...
Shazam-class fingerprinting plus modern ML have made song ID a solved problem on any modern phone. --- AI can identify a song from a short audio clip, includi...
Style transfer was the original 'wow' moment of generative AI back in 2015–2017. Now built into most photo apps. --- AI can convert a photo to a chosen painti...
Libratus crushed top professionals over 120,000 hands at Rivers Casino in January 2017. The first time a poker AI clearly surpassed humans at imperfect-informat...
AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol 4–1 in a five-game match in Seoul, March 2016. The line moved. --- AI has already demonstrated its ability to win a Go match agains...
ResNet surpassed human performance on the ImageNet benchmark in 2015. Today's models do this on phones in milliseconds. --- Current AI systems can identify ob...
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