Examples of Machines Becoming More Important
This is a YouTube video of humanoid robots playing soccer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQdSepTB-E
This is a YouTube video of humanoid robots with wheels playing football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyorb9MHYr0
RoboCup 2008 Humanoid Soccer Final: NimbRo vs. Team Osaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMM_XQXJUUc
Notice the following:
Many children in the audience.
Robots are still quite primitive and frustrating to watch because they don't kick when given the chance.
They are getting better each year. Like the tortoise and the hare, the hare (human) assumes that
since the tortoise is slower, it will always be such.
In order to give you an idea of how slow improvement of humans is, the approval of using porcine
kidneys in humans is projected in 2009 to take three years to develop and another 7 years to pass
clinicals. By then, it will be 2019, the date when supercomputers are projected to gain artificial general
intelligence.
The Robots are Coming
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This is a YouTube video of humanoid robots playing soccer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQdSepTB-E
This is a YouTube video of humanoid robots with wheels playing football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyorb9MHYr0
RoboCup 2008 Humanoid Soccer Final: NimbRo vs. Team Osaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMM_XQXJUUc
Notice the following:
Many children in the audience.
Robots are still quite primitive and frustrating to watch because they don't kick when given the chance.
They are getting better each year. Like the tortoise and the hare, the hare (human) assumes that
since the tortoise is slower, it will always be such.
In order to give you an idea of how slow improvement of humans is, the approval of using porcine
kidneys in humans is projected in 2009 to take three years to develop and another 7 years to pass
clinicals. By then, it will be 2019, the date when supercomputers are projected to gain artificial general
intelligence.
The Robots are Coming
Next
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