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There is a little known alternative Turing test or competition if you will, between man and machine. It says that a team of robots will beat the world champions

There is a little known alternative Turing test or competition if you will, between man and machine. It says that a team of robots will beat the world champions in football (soccer) before 2050. I think it will happen sooner. What do you think?

venomsnake 13y ago
Of course it will ... with robots you have no limits on strength speed and endurance as long as the battery pack can support the unit for 45 minutes. You have instant communication and perfect positioning. You can also make superhuman shots with strength and precision. AI has nothing to do with it.
- ealexhudson 13y ago
  If they have to compete in the same "form factor" then they don't stand a chance. Professional football is incredibly complex. (45m would be an absolute minimum, too: actual playing time required would be more like an hour.)
  - swombat 13y ago
    Arguably, a properly constructed set of 11 robots should be able to pass the ball to somewhere about half-way down the field fairly quickly and unstoppably, and would then proceed to shoot in exactly the right corner of the net from halfway down the pitch. Blocking shots taken at the robot goal (if such a thing ever happened) would also be a piece of cake given the ease with which we can already program robots to catch things thrown at them.
- ctdonath 13y ago
  as long as the battery pack can support the unit for 45 minutes Aye, there's the rub. The article's photo shows a thick cable dragging behind the robot. The power source won't be included in the unit for a long time. No indication of where the computing power is either.
mapt 13y ago
Put ten million dollars on this today, and a team of robots could beat the world champions in football by the end of 2013, 2014 at most. It's simply not that hard of a problem, and you have failed to constrain the form factor of the robots.

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There is a little known alternative Turing test or competition if you will, between man and machine. It says that a team of robots will beat the world champions

by erikstarck 13y ago

venomsnake 13y ago
Of course it will ... with robots you have no limits on strength speed and endurance as long as the battery pack can support the unit for 45 minutes. You have instant communication and perfect positioning. You can also make superhuman shots with strength and precision. AI has nothing to do with it.
- ealexhudson 13y ago
  If they have to compete in the same "form factor" then they don't stand a chance. Professional football is incredibly complex. (45m would be an absolute minimum, too: actual playing time required would be more like an hour.)
  - swombat 13y ago
    Arguably, a properly constructed set of 11 robots should be able to pass the ball to somewhere about half-way down the field fairly quickly and unstoppably, and would then proceed to shoot in exactly the right corner of the net from halfway down the pitch. Blocking shots taken at the robot goal (if such a thing ever happened) would also be a piece of cake given the ease with which we can already program robots to catch things thrown at them.
- ctdonath 13y ago
  as long as the battery pack can support the unit for 45 minutes Aye, there's the rub. The article's photo shows a thick cable dragging behind the robot. The power source won't be included in the unit for a long time. No indication of where the computing power is either.
mapt 13y ago
Put ten million dollars on this today, and a team of robots could beat the world champions in football by the end of 2013, 2014 at most. It's simply not that hard of a problem, and you have failed to constrain the form factor of the robots.