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topic: HOPE.

When you decide to play poker against robots, You've got to put your hope in your own poker face.

@aaribaud Did you intend to capture "hoping to win"?

Because it works as a hopeful future where robots and humans are friends rather than evolutionary adversaries too.

@DaveHiggins TBH, when I did this drawing, the human was supposed to be among the few who would deal (no pun intended) the very same way with another human or with a ('mere') robot. He's unbiased, and could one day help bridge the gap between robots and humans (once he realizes there's one, which he doesn't).

And then came @leip4Ier whose wondering steered the story in a completely different direction. :)

Albert ARIBAUD ✎ @aaribaud

@DaveHiggins That explains why the robots invited him to play poker rather than another human, but I haven't got the faintest idea why the robots decided to play poker in the first place. Mark my word, these things have a mind of their own.

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@aaribaud Poker is a mix of statistics and social interaction; so perhaps they wanted to explore the mushy edges of certainty.