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

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.