China's AI Awakening

On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one--on--one poker against a dozen people at once, and it's absolutely crushing them. Lengpudashi, which means "cold poker master" in Mandarin, is using a new artificial--intelligence technique to outbet and outbluff its opponents in a two--player version of Texas hold 'em.

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