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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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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, chess, deep blue, deepmind, game algorithms, robotics, robots, sports, video games
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DailyDirt: Terminators From The Future Are Already Here..?
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Maybe you’ve seen some ads featuring a former California governor fighting a younger, computer-generated version of himself lately. The Terminator franchise is almost guaranteed to be rebooted every few years, just as the real life technology that could create strong artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer. Hopefully, a $10 million donation from Elon Musk to the Future of Life Institute will help delay Judgment Day, but progress in artificial intelligence can’t be bargained with, it can’t feel pain or mercy, and it will stop at absolutely nothing….
- Google DeepMind is reading Daily Mail and CNN articles to learn how to understand grammar and the English language better. Forcing computers to read news articles all day is probably going to end up being the reason why AI hates humanity. [url]
- Chatbots are getting better and better at human-like conversation — and it can be very creepy. One Google-sponsored chatbot was asked, “What is immoral?” And it answered, “The fact that you have a child.” Yup. These machines aren’t going to try to extinguish the human race at all. Nope. Nope. Nope. Put your fingers in your ears and sing your favorite song now. [url]
- There’s a system called CodePhage that can detect software bugs and attempt to fix them without human intervention. And that’s how Skynet evolves to remove human error from its programming…. [url]
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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, bugs, chatbots, codephage, deepmind, elon musk, future of life institute, judgment day, machine learning, software, terminator
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