DailyDirt: Can't We Just Play Games For Fun?
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We've seen plenty of advances in game algorithms that make us humans look pretty weak compared to the best chess (and checkers and poker and RPS and air hockey and Flappy bird and...) playing computers. Computers aren't having any fun beating us at all these games, but they do it nonetheless. As always, let's just hope they figure out quickly that no one wins at thermonuclear war.- It seems a bit irrational for humans to keep playing a game that a computer can play better than 99.999999% of all humans, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to create better and better chess playing algorithms. A deep learning program called Giraffe has taught itself how to play chess at an FIDE International Master level in just three days (on a modern mainstream PC, not a supercomputer). It's not playing at a (super-)Grandmaster level yet, but it's also not evaluating millions of moves per second like Deep Blue and other chess supercomputers can. [url]
- Google's DeepMind AI is beating humans at more classic video games -- now up to 31 titles, such as Q*Bert and Zaxxon. However, it hasn't yet mastered games like Ms. Pac-Man or Asteroids. Phew! We're not obsolete yet.... [url]
- If you think humans are safe by sticking to sports like soccer, basketball or baseball, you might want to see a few robots in development for playing some of these sports. It might take some time for robots to catch up, but I doubt anyone really wants to play any kind of full-contact sport against a robot, anyway. [url]
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Human game playing
If winning is all there is then sell your games to some computers, and good luck collecting.
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Getting about same results, though:
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And to the minion who claimed those are automated posts: why did they stop after my gibes? And now resume? Am I so powerful as to influence even automata?
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Re: GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! PIRAT-E MIK-E ALIVE AND POSTING AGAIN AT SUPRBAY! HOIST THE JOLLY ROGER! DOUBLE GROG FOR ALL!
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Who wouldnt a sex-bot out of curiosity?
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Let's have "transparency" from Techdirt as to how many click are required to censor, what percentage of readers that is, and whether an administrator okays the censoring. Again, you simply don't practice what you advise.
After so many times that Techdirt jeers at people who try to suppress criticism and gibes, I just wish could get you kids to see that you're petulant hypocrites like everyone else except lack money for lawsuits.
Expected he'd sneak in again; I was busy last few days.
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Getting about same results, though:
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Last Post: Mike
And to the minion who claimed those are automated posts: why did they stop after my gibes? And resumed when I didn't comment for a few days? Am I so powerful as to influence even automata?
Have to click to see comments the fanboys censored?
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Stick to Go
They're not even close.
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