Machine Learns Games 241
heptapod writes "New Scientist is reporting that UK researchers have created a computer that can learn rock, paper, scissors by observing humans. CogVis uses visual information to recognize events and objects in addition to learning by observing."
is this really all that new? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:And in other news computer beats world chess ch (Score:5, Interesting)
Doesn't this seem like A.I.? Rather freaky, to tell you the truth.
Re:And in other news computer beats world chess ch (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Better be reliable... (Score:2, Interesting)
I can't believe that this was moderated Insightful. What kind of culture are we living in where we believe machines can spontaneously flow with free will and kill us all?
Someone had to program this thing. They had to tell the program to recognize a human form as the object to pay attention to. It's not like they got a camera, gave it AI, pointed it at a rock-paper-scissors game and commanded it to "learn." That would be real AI, which we are nowhere close to creating.
It's this kind of ignorance of modern technology and programming that creates sensational journalism that in turn spawns legislation that limits technology and technological progress.
Re:Better be reliable... (Score:5, Interesting)
It's just a statement about AI, that's why it's insightful - lots of AI systems have historically learned the wrong thing, though we thought they had got it right. Like the neural net designed to distinguish between camouflaged tanks among trees, and tank-free forests. It seemed to work, until it was in field tests - turns out the pictures w/ tanks were all taken on cloudy days (or maybe all taken on sunny days) - the system had figured out how to tell if it was sunny or not.
the Roshambot (Score:3, Interesting)
Presumably if it played against Bart Simpson it would learn to always pick paper.
RoShamBo and Data Compression (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway, try it out. In the long run, it kicks my butt. I try to make 'random' decisions, but still go below
- sm