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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

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The Imperfect Information Game

In imperfect information games, you have to worry not just about which actions to play, but the probability that you're gonna play those actions. And really importantly, the value of an action depends on the probability that it will be played. So if you're playing rock every single time, that value is really low. But if you're never playing rock, you play rock like 1% of the time, and then suddenly the other person's probably throwing scissors. When you take that to poker, for example, what that means is the value of bluffing. Finding that balance of how often you should be bluffing is the key challenge of a game of poker. It doesn't matter if you

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