Yes, it was inevitable! Someone had to prove that computers once again are superior to human experts. They did it in 1997 when IBM’s Deep Blue beat World Chess Master Gary Kasparov.

So now, a group of professors at the University of Alberta has developed “Polaris”, a computer with the ability to beat humans in Poker. The best news is this:

1) The computer lost in July – but the Profs say they’ll correct that “mistake”.

2) It’s only affective in one-on-one, limit games. Surprise! The profs are hard at work to fix that too. They claim it will soon annihilate all players in no-limit, multi-handed games as well.

But, you say… there are built-in “filters” to detect computer enhanced play. They can’t get away with that! But those human-hating professors are building in a randomizer to make the computer appear human – except for one thing… it will never lose!

So, when you see that you just can’t beat that player across the table, it just might be R2D2 and not GrammaJones. What do you think about this development? Fair? Clever? … it is at least one thing: inevitable!