Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Any AI looking at the footage would face the same issue, even for a tournament as long as the Main Event.

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Tell detection is nuanced work, and pros are dubious that a camera-based AI tool can effectively do it better than a human.

Most nonplayers’ exposure to the importance of poker tells comes from the penultimate scene in the 1998 film Rounders. Matt Damon’s character, Mike McDermott, folds a monster hand to John Malkovich’s Teddy KGB after recognizing that the gangster has him beat—and McDermott discovers this after spotting a tell based on KGB’s habit of eating Oreos at the table. It’s arguably the most memorable poker scene in movie history because it perfectly expresses the battle of wits that underlies every poker game, even though in reality it’s quite reductive.

“To reference the RoundersOreo cookie tell, it’s a little more abstract than that,”...

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