Live dealer games: what's actually AI, and what's just a person

Let's start with the honest answer

A real, trained dealer runs the physical game, on camera, from a studio, exactly as advertised. The moment that muddies the "is it AI" question is what happens between the spin or deal and your screen: the studio's cameras and recognition software use computer vision, a genuine and long-established form of AI, to read the physical wheel number or the dealt cards and convert them into a digital result your bet settles against. That's a real, non-trivial technical system, it's just not doing anything predictive, it's reading a result that's already happened.

Where AI genuinely operates in a live studio

Beyond result capture, the most significant AI use in live dealer blackjack specifically is live dealer AI tracking, computer vision systems watching every card dealt and cross-referencing betting patterns for signs of card counting. Since a live shoe is a real, physical deck that depletes exactly like a land-based table, the same maths that makes counting work in principle applies here, which is exactly why studios invest in AI specifically built to catch it, far more aggressively than a typical land-based pit boss could manually.

What isn't AI, whatever the marketing implies

The dealer's actual spin, shuffle and deal are entirely human and physical, no algorithm influences where a ball lands or how a shoe is shuffled. Any product claiming to predict a specific live dealer outcome using "AI" is making exactly the same false claim covered elsewhere on this site for RNG games, a live wheel or shoe is subject to genuine physical randomness (or human shuffling procedure), not a data feed a model could learn to forecast.

If you're curious specifically about tracking live roulette results as they land, without any predictive claims attached, the live roulette tracker is a straightforward tool for logging numbers and seeing basic hot/cold statistics, explicitly framed as description, not prediction.