Neural Network Learns to Bluff at Poker [News]

These days, the bots playing poker can't bluff convincingly. "Computers are programmed to perform the best strategy, but bluffing is based on unexpected, illogical actions," says Evan Hurwitz, a computer scientist at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.


Now Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations.



Then the researchers decided to play Aiden against three other similarly trained bots to see what would happen. "They began to develop their own personalities - either aggressive or conservative - depending on their past successes,"

Neural Network Learns to Bluff at Poker [News]

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Neural Network Creates Music CD [News]

Computers have composed music before, but those efforts were little more than high-tech mixed tapes. Most computer composers have been taught rules of music through extensive programming or by breaking down works of human musicians and creating new pieces from the parts.


Instead, these Creativity Machine are untrained artificial intelligence computer known as a neural network. The neurons in the computer brain are mathematical entities instead of brain cells. The creative process starts by tweaking the mathematical connections between the neurons. That set off a cascade of calculations that were translated as sounds.

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