A computer program, “Cepheus”, has solved the game of poker. The Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) created Cepheus. It claims Cepheus can not only play poker, but also beat human opponents.

一个名为“Cepheus”（仙王座）得计算机程序已经解决了扑克游戏的问题。计算机扑克研究小组（简称CPRG）创建了Cepheus程序。它声称，Cepheus不仅可以打扑克牌，还可以打败人类对手。

Games, such as poker and chess, have been used as test beds. New concepts in artificial intelligence are being developed. Past successes in this field include IBM's Deep Blue. It defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in chess.

不同的游戏，比如说扑克和国际象棋，已经被用作试验品。人工智能方面的新概念在不断发展。过去在这一领域的成功例子包括IBM（美国国际商用机器公司）的“深蓝”超级电脑。它打败了国际象棋世界冠军加里·卡斯帕罗夫。

Poker brings special challenges to artificial intelligence researchers. The players — human or computer — don't know about the past events. They can't see the cards in the hands of their opponents.

扑克给人工智能的研究者带来特殊挑战。玩家—人类或电脑---对过去的比赛项目不太了解。他们看不见对手手中的牌。

The CPRG determined that any game could be solved. Over the course of a lifetime, it could be played with 95 percent confidence. To test Cepheus with poker, the computer was trained for two months with more than 4,000 CPUs in use. Each CPU considered more than 6 billion hands of poker. That amounted to more poker than has been played by the entire human race. From each hand, Cepheus was able to improve its play. It can refine its choices to get closer to finding the best possible solution.

CPRG确定任何游戏问题都能被解决。在游戏有效期内，你可以带着95%的信心进行游戏。为了用扑克来测试Cepheus，计算机接受了两个月的培训，使用4000多个CPU（中央处理器）。每个CPU要考虑超过60亿手的扑克。那比全人类玩的扑克还要多。从每一手牌中，Cepheus能够提高它的牌艺。它能调整自身选项以尽可能找到最佳解决方案。

In developing Cepheus, the CPRG's goal was not to beat all human players and win the World Series of Poker. This technology is just one way to make a computer actually “think”.

在发展Cepheus的过程中，CPRG的目标不是要打败所有的人类玩家并赢得世界扑克大赛冠军。这项技术只是让计算机真正“思考”的一种方法。

The next step for Cepheus will likely involve more hands of poker. More players are added. That will add more computation problems.

Cepheus的下一步将可能涉及更多的扑克牌。更多的玩家会被增加。那样将增加更多的计算问题。

Cepheus thus far has proved its prowess with cards. But what it does next will be limited by today's computational capabilities. Computational power within the CPU/GPU, storage and RAM has continued to evolve. It allows for more complex supercomputing, software programming and problem solving. This allows the computer to learn. In the case of an unbeatable poker program, the computer would have to learn every possible move in every possible given situation.Then it would draw on its database to know the possible best move to make to win.

到目前为止，Cepheus已证明其纸牌实力。但下一步它要怎么做，将受到今天的计算能力限制。CPU（中央处理器）/GPU（图形处理器）内部的计算能力、存储器和RAM(随机存储器)不断进化。它允许更复杂的超级计算、软件编程和问题解决。这让电脑学习。在这个不可匹敌的扑克程序里，计算机必须学会在所有既定情境中的各种可能步骤。然后，它会利用数据库获取赢得游戏的最佳可行策略。