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Noam Brown | Innovators Under 35

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Our annual list of the young dreamers, tinkerers, and innovators that are creating technology’s future.

Noam Brown was never very good at poker. But an artificially intelligent program he created became the first to beat the world’s top players in no-limit Texas Hold’em, the game’s most popular variant. In recent years, machines have defeated humans in checkers, chess, and Go—known as “perfect information” games, where both players know the exact state of play at any given point. Imperfect information games like poker, where hidden cards introduce strategies like bluffing, add another level of complexity. “When you introduce hidden information, all these past techniques just fall apart,”…

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