As the other poster has listed: the superhuman Poker AI is already built. They extend the poker-AI to play another game here.
Actually, CFR is really interesting, because it calculates an estimation to the Nash Equalibrium and plays theoretically close to optimal in randomized strategies. Its a straightforward concept from a game-theory perspective, but the "estimation to Nash Equalibrium" part is the interesting part. Since a real Nash Equalibrium is too difficult to calculate, it seems like their estimated Nash-Equalibirum is good enough in practice.
Any "game" with a Nash Equalibrium with randomized strategies should benefit from CFR. Which is most games of "bluffing" and hidden information (Poker, Avalon, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering), and even real-world negotiations, diplomacy, business transactions, etc. etc.
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Since CFR has already proven to be superhuman at Poker, the research problem is now in extending this Nash Equalibirum estimate over to other games. IMO, Avalon / Wearewolf games are too simple, AI Researchers should move to Magic: The Gathering or other more complex games like that instead.
Actually, CFR is really interesting, because it calculates an estimation to the Nash Equalibrium and plays theoretically close to optimal in randomized strategies. Its a straightforward concept from a game-theory perspective, but the "estimation to Nash Equalibrium" part is the interesting part. Since a real Nash Equalibrium is too difficult to calculate, it seems like their estimated Nash-Equalibirum is good enough in practice.
Any "game" with a Nash Equalibrium with randomized strategies should benefit from CFR. Which is most games of "bluffing" and hidden information (Poker, Avalon, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering), and even real-world negotiations, diplomacy, business transactions, etc. etc.
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Since CFR has already proven to be superhuman at Poker, the research problem is now in extending this Nash Equalibirum estimate over to other games. IMO, Avalon / Wearewolf games are too simple, AI Researchers should move to Magic: The Gathering or other more complex games like that instead.