Monday, November 4, 2013

Now robots are better at everything!

Still can't beat Spock, though.
Geez, we can't even win simple children's games anymore. First it was crosses and naughts (tic-tac-toe as we call it in the U.S.), then it was chess, checkers, and any other game you can imagine. Now, they can even win - every single time no less - at rock, paper, scissors.

A robot has been developed in Japan that is so fast at determining what shape is being made by its opponents hand that it is impossible to beat. However, as the article notes, it's not really playing, it's cheating. Still, it's wining. Every time. When robots start winning at rock paper scissors, all hope for humanity is lost.
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  1. Thu Thuy NguyenNovember 5, 2013 at 11:54 AM

    How interesting, I always knew this day would come. As you showed us in class, playing chess with a computer, the lines represented all of the possible moves you could make and how the computer could counter it. I don't know if this is true but it seems that technology will always be one step ahead in these types of games because they have the capacity to consider every possibility.

    As far as the rock-paper-scissors is concerned, I wonder if somebody pretended to go for scissors then pulled up the other three fingers to represent paper, if the robot would be able to detect this quick change or would it lose?

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  2. UnknownNovember 11, 2013 at 9:29 AM

    Good question Thu Thuy! I can't bring myself to see the point of these robots. Unfortunately you would like to see these robots do something good for humanity, but ultimately these robots will eventually be used for military advantage.

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