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Why did meta hire someome to study poker bots? Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and wr

by rvba 4y ago

Why did meta hire someome to study poker bots? Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and write own poker bots? How does this research help facebook? Im very, very far away from Musk and his antics, but really some of those big companies seem to have lots of people who do passion projects. Meanwhile an actual user has low if no chance to get decent support (probably for the cost of that of programmer they could get multiple people). And yes I am aware that I sound anti illectual here and research the sake of reseaech can lead to nice things. I just think that the person will quit facebook to write poker bots and ruin the game for those who play it by detecting their weaknesses ( btw. I dont even play poker).

LarryMullins 4y ago
> Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and write own poker bots? That's a risk when you pay workers to research or learn nearly anything new. If you run a pizzeria, you teach your workers how to make pizzas; they could turn around and make pizzas for another business instead. Maybe even open their own pizza shop and compete with you, using your own recipe. I think accepting this kind of risk is simply table stakes for running a business.
Jerrrry 4y ago
Studying poker and humans style of play of the game translate directly to improving generalized agents that can play other games. For all we know, the guy who was kinda good at poker made the small break-thru that led Google's Alpha/Omega chess or Go achievement. It's actually difficult to tell what piece of such complex systems are responsible for which - but in general, applying incremental piecemeal improvements have been monumental for the magnitude jump in progress in recent years.

by rvba 4y ago

LarryMullins 4y ago

> Arent they afraid that after spending a lot of money on some developer that peraon will just quit facebook and write own poker bots? That's a risk when you pay workers to research or learn nearly anything new. If you run a pizzeria, you teach your workers how to make pizzas; they could turn around and make pizzas for another business instead. Maybe even open their own pizza shop and compete with you, using your own recipe. I think accepting this kind of risk is simply table stakes for running a business.

Jerrrry 4y ago

Studying poker and humans style of play of the game translate directly to improving generalized agents that can play other games. For all we know, the guy who was kinda good at poker made the small break-thru that led Google's Alpha/Omega chess or Go achievement. It's actually difficult to tell what piece of such complex systems are responsible for which - but in general, applying incremental piecemeal improvements have been monumental for the magnitude jump in progress in recent years.