PokerStars has launched a hiring spree for multiple staff to "help create a fully-flexible AI agent" according to previously unreported job advertisements.
These roles will seek to create a number of different programs using artificial intelligence "which will learn how to play" poker and possibly other games, likely leading to new PokerStars products. Recently published advertisements suggest an international recruitment effort hiring for roles in both the company's London and Dublin offices.
Interestingly, the roles are described as being part of PokerStars' poker innovation team, and thus, are likely to not be part of the PokerStars' Game Integrity team efforts to combat the use of prohibited software on the site.
It is not clear what kinds of applications the news AI posts will lead to, but the implication is that we can expect to see new live and/or online poker products offered by PokerStars in the not-too-distant future. (READ SO: POKERSTARS LEAVE COLOMBIAN MARKET)
One potential application of such research would be human customers getting the opportunity to play against PokerStars-operated bots, for example as part of either a tutorial program or a new offline version of the software which might be particularly popular on mobile devices.
