Posted on 03/19/2017 5:48:03 AM PDT by C19fan
The year 2010 seems a long time ago now, but it was then that Claude Sammut, a computer science and engineering professor in Australia, made the bold claim that 2050 would be the year that robot footballers would supercede the abilities of mere humans. It's safe to say that, since then, the fears over job automation that keep supermarket checkout workers lying awake at night have not done the same for Lionel Messi. Or, for that matter, Steve Sidwell. Aside from the slightly wacky nature of the claim, there's another problem – who would pay to watch robot footballers? It would be quite easy to develop a robot that could beat the world's best at snooker or darts, but who would be watching?
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I get killed in the freebie version of chess that came with Windows 7.
This is terrible; millions of “professional poker players” will end up in breadlines.
Trump’s fault! /s
They make this sound new but it’s not. Why get into a pile driving competition with a steam engine?
Lord Lord, John Henry picked that hammer up in his hands..
Relatives of the people who would actually sit in front of a TV and watch a poker game on ESPN?
What's next, ESPN's Wednesday night Bingo from the rec room of the Happy Valley Retirement Home in Las Vegas, featuring current world champion Esther Arbuckle, 87, resident of American House in Sun City, AZ......?
We’re doomed!
But can you teach a robot to FReep?
All this automation wouldn’t be so bad if we had only 5% of the current world population.
Instead, we have millions and even billions of people who will be thrown out of work with no real hope of finding employment. (I drive a school bus at the moment, so I’m on the chopping block.)
The robots will bring a train-load of human misery and they don’t even know it.
What makes you think bots are not already here?
No one wants to watch AIs beat each other at poker and may or may not watch people be beat by a machine.
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