4 of poker’s most talented Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em players are locked in a battle of Brains v Artificial Intelligence as computer scientists use poker as a way to improve the world.

In 1957, Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, two jewels in the crown of Artificial Intelligence development, predicted that within the next 10-years a computer would beat the best player in the world at Chess.

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue beat the World Chess Champion, Garry Kasparov (31/2-21/2). Thirty years had passed since the two experts had made their bold predictions.

Even the smartest people in the world get it wrong.