An interesting empiric field for artificial intelligence and robotics is online poker, a complex game that requires more than mere computational power (as opposed to chess, arguably). Imperfect information coupled with unknown rationales of living (or artificial) opponents call for a very wide set of skills to be formulated and implemented in efficient algorithms. Being a game with a well-delimited universe (rules), internet poker lends itself very nicely to studies and experiments in probabilistic inference, opponent modeling and other such hitherto more or less un-researched areas.

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