AI program beats pros in six-player poker game

WASHINGTON - Artificial intelligence programs have bested humans in checkers, chess, Go and two-player poker, but multi-player poker was always believed to be a bigger ask. Mission: accomplished.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Facebook's AI initiative, announced on Thursday that their program defeated a group of top pros in six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.

All those human players are best players in the world who have won more than $1 million playing poker, according to the study.