About whether a poker AI beating top pros counts when engineers tuned it nightly.
Has this happened?
Yes 28 (25%)Not sure 59 (54%)No 23 (21%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether a poker AI beating top pros counts when engineers tuned it nightly.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
"Each night after the play ended, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre added computations to sharpen the AI's strategy."
This sounds more like an "advanced chess" setup, where a human teams up with an AI to play. The title of the article should really be "amateur poker players + AI defeat professional poker players". The real test would be if the AI self-corrected over the length of the tournament, without human intervention.