Wednesday, June 27, 2012

IF THEY HOOK WATSON UP TO THIS, SKYNET WILL BE CREATED: Japanese scientists have developed a robot that (courtesy of high speed vision and analysis of human anatomy) beats humans in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors nearly 100% of the time.  No word on whether or not the robot is able to win when Lizard and Spock are added, though.
Posted by Matt at 11:23 AM

5 comments:

  1. Watts11:55 AM

    Much more impressive than the computeres that learned to recognize cats on YouTube, thereby passing the "Purring Test."

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  2. isaac_spaceman12:32 PM

    So it's just employing the same rock-paper-scissors strategy that Spaceboy 2.0 employs:  wait until the opponent throws something before committing to anything other than a formless finger-blob.  If you're not playing rochambeau with imperfect information, you're not playing rochambeau. 

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  3. J. Bowman7:51 PM

    Yeah, this is the very definition of cheating at RPS.

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  4. Joseph J. Finn7:55 PM

    *Groan*<span> </span>

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  5. Matt9:33 PM

    To be fair, if it flagged every YouTube video as containing cats, wouldn't that be accurate for a huge portion of YouTube videos?

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