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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Comments on “DailyDirt: Can't We Just Play Games For Fun?”
Human game playing
Isn’t the point to have fun, be entertained, maybe challenged a bit? Sure we strive to win, but when winning becomes all, then it is no longer fun, or entertaining.
If winning is all there is then sell your games to some computers, and good luck collecting.
Pinball.
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Getting about same results, though:
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They probably stopped because you said something so supremely stupid you crashed the bot, and it just now restarted.
“full-contact sport against a robot”
Who wouldnt a sex-bot out of curiosity?
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Repeated to uncensor. Twelve tries last night means the thread was locked down.
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.
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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 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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At least part of the problem is that computers can have timing and endurance not matched by people, regardless of algorithms. For example, a person who is allowed to play a game and script it can beat a person without that ability depending on context (if used properly). This should be encouraged. I’m surprised so few games apparently teach people to script and come up with algorithms to help them.
Stick to Go
If computers besting top-ranked humans at games is a problem for you, stick to go.
They’re not even close.
Re: Stick to Go
lol.