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The reason we watch sporting events is to watch a fallible human attempt to control their body or mind enough to best other humans attempting to do the same. N
by xrd 4y ago
The reason we watch sporting events is to watch a fallible human attempt to control their body or mind enough to best other humans attempting to do the same.
No one will watch a competition between two self-driving identical Mazdas racing down the road.
- tuukkah 4y agoWhat kind of team work between a human and a machine would result in interesting chess? I hope it would reduce the need to study openings. Something simple to begin with: let computers play the odd moves and humans the even moves, without any communication. This way, the computer would need to play in a way that would make sense to their team mate.
- a4isms 4y agoThis is the format in a lot of tournaments where a pro is paired with an amateur. For example, in pairs snooker or pool, there are two ways to arrange pairs: Alternate innings and alternate strokes. With alternate strokes, the better player will not only execute their shot, they will arrange to leave a shot that their teammate can easily make. --- But all that being said, if such a game becomes popular, cheating will still be a thing as the team will always benefit from having the strongest possible human player.
- jcalabro 4y agoThere's good reason to watch strong chess computers play each other! They can teach you some interesting techniques at the higher level (or so I've been told, I'm a lowly 1200 :P)
- tialaramex 4y agoWell if they're actually identical this seems like a stupid race. But if the software is different, sure, why not? The Robot soccer leagues had a league where the platform is literally identical, all teams buy some Nao robots from Aldebaran Robotics, they have a coloured indicator so you know which team is which - but the matches certainly aren't like watching a mirror, if one team has programmed a vastly improved dribbling strategy or the other team's ball tracking isn't very good, it's pretty obvious who wins that. Humans can no longer usefully assist chess computers. So all a human is doing is attempting to obey simple movement instructions, which isn't even a sport.
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- gibspaulding 4y agoI think lots of folks would happily watch a race between two different manufacture's self driving cars.
- jlbbellefeuille 4y agohttp://selfracingcars.com/ http://selfracingcars.com/
- slg 4y ago>No one will watch a competition between two self-driving identical Mazdas racing down the road. That depends entirely on how it is presented. Over 13 million people watched these inanimate marbles[1] compete in a variety of races. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AbcCbyJ2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AbcCbyJ2U
- aksss 4y ago~13m + 1, dammit!
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoMarble races are fantastic, but not as good as the hotwheels races (3d botmaker diecast racing or something like that, the announcers are pretty funny)
- jrussino 4y agoThis is satire, right?