Re: Poker AI
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Think of it like chess, most chess players even ones who are pretty good probably can't even beat a storebought chess program set to max difficulty. If the poker equivalent of Deep Blue (or whatever the top chess program) were to be developed, I would be quite worried.
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But it is really quite different from chess, since most of the advantage that computers derives in chess comes from:
1) Their ability to store in memory tens of thousands of previously played or analyzed opening moves.
2) Their awesome processing power, which allows them to analyze a tremendous number of ply to the nth degree, which allows them to see with perfect accuracy potential positions which might occur.
The above two advantages are even more pronounced with programs that utilize a "brute force" over a selective search paradigm, with the latter being more analogous to human thought processing. The one advantage good human players in poker would have against a computer is that there is not an insurmountable degree of memory or computation required. Whereas a computer could probably make a fair amount of money playing limit poker against loose computation by just by maximizing value betting, I don't see how a computer would necessarily beat the Monday night 2+2 table.
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