{"id":2290,"date":"2008-12-03T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:53:32","slug":"ante-up-human-the-adventures-of-polaris-the-poker-playing-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Ante Up, Human: The Adventures of Polaris, the Poker-Playing Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-6.png' title='Snippet of Comic'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/picture-6.png' alt='Snippet of Comic' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current issue of Wired has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2203\">another use (similar to Google&#8217;s)<\/a> of comics to explain research advances in AI and gaming. In this case they feature <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polaris_(poker_bot)\">Polaris<\/a> by the U of Alberta <a href=\"http:\/\/poker.cs.ualberta.ca\/\">Computer Poker Research Group<\/a> led by Michael Bowling. The comic booklet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/special_multimedia\/2008\/ff_poker_1612\">Ante Up, Human: The Adventures of Polaris, the Poker-Playing Robot<\/a> features Michael in a smoking jacket and blue bunny slippers. I&#8217;m guessing the bunnies are a reference to the arctic hares that we have here in Edmonton, though it should be said that I have never seen Michael in such garb. <\/p>\n<p>The interesting point is how Polaris chooses personalities for extended play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current issue of Wired has another use (similar to Google&#8217;s) of comics to explain research advances in AI and gaming. In this case they feature Polaris by the U of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group led by Michael Bowling. The comic booklet, Ante Up, Human: The Adventures of Polaris, the Poker-Playing Robot features Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ante Up, Human: The Adventures of Polaris, the Poker-Playing Robot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-media-and-news","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}