AI and other aids in live play
As we all know, AI is a current buzzword and gets used in all sorts of ways to sell things, many of them probably inappropriate or incorrect.
Having said that, as solvers become more and more ubiquitous and GTO gets more pervasive, there is plenty of concern about how it is affecting games, mostly online, but more and more in live games as well (see the controversy at last year's WSOP where one of the final two players had friends running solvers in the stands, providing him insight after that fact).
I was pleasantly surprised to see the following sign posted prominently at the CAZ TSR card room last month. I hope all rooms take a similar stand, and TDA does as well.
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I think for now it will rarely be an issue. Hopefully.
But at some point they will have to ban people from wearing headphones or those electronic ear plug things (which I don't have...). Because soon, if not already, people will be hooked up to their phones (or lap tops hidden in a bag) that will be giving them AI advice. Especially when they are covering their mouth with a hoodie so we wouldn't know they are talking to the AI about their situation.
It will get much worse in like 50 or 100 years when computer chips are implanted in people's brains...
It will get much worse in like 50 or 100 years when computer chips are implanted in people's brains...
Or in a year's time when more people are wearing Smart Glasses.
Ironic that this sign is posted at a room where the higher-stakes action is mostly mix. Good luck with your Badeucey and Dramaha solvers.
The sign gives the impression not using devices is special. We have come to this.
The new standard: two players to a hand. Tech and Hero.
Device use is perfectly acceptable in that room, or at least I never once heard a dealer admonish anyone for being on their phone or on a phone call during a hand. Having said that, no one seemed to be doing anything suspicious either.
