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I don't think we can say they are "great" at lying. Complexe instant and continuous lying is far from great and that's why computers are very far from crushing human at games like sc2
What's the progress? Last time I checked, they were able to play slightly modified abc (i.e. take opponent's range into account) and have negligible winrate at micro to small stakes before rakeback.