Game theory in Poker: Humans vs. Robots

The Financial Times' Tim Harford wrote a column a while back about Von Neumann game theory in poker, and how software developers have been trying to feed game theory rules into a computer that would be able to predict all possible plays. Fascinating.

This paragraph however struck me as -- well, futuristically scary:

"In a pair of exhibition matches concluding the World Poker Robot championships, the big-name professional Phil “Unabomber” Laak was recruited to play the machines. As a partisan crowd chanted “Hu-mans! Hu-mans!” he swiftly disposed of both the Alberta program and the newly minted world champion, a program called PokerPro. Nobody was surprised."

Holy shit. The day when we chant "Hu-mans! Hu-mans!" is already here.
But hey, we're winning.
For now. :)