NEW A.I. TOOL DETECTS POKER PLAYERS POSSIBLY BLUFFING
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Humans detect bluffs only ~54% of the time — barely above chance!
Studies show even experts struggle to spot deception. In 2017, Carnegie Mellon's Libratus AI beat top poker pros without reading faces at all — it used pure game theory math instead.
MIT researchers mapped 200+ micro-expressions to detect bluffing!
Studies show humans detect bluffing only ~54% of the time — barely better than a coin flip. AI systems analyzing facial micro-expressions and body language can push that accuracy significantly higher.