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Title: "game over for humans"
Post by: ReardenSteel on May 18, 2009, 05:55:25 PM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17145-nine-games-computers-are-ruining-for-humanity.html?page=1

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Nine games computers are ruining for humanity
12:30 18 May 2009 by Michael Marshall

If we ever manage to build a working quantum computer, the first killer app might be online poker. Thanks to the counter-intuitive rules of quantum mechanics, players will be able to use mind-boggling strategies like betting and folding simultaneously (see Quantum poker: Are the chips down or not?).

Poker wouldn't be the first game to have been revolutionised by computers. Artificial intelligence researchers have taught computers to play a wide range of strategic games well enough to compete with skilful human players – and in a few cases, they've beaten them convincingly...

First checkers, then chess, then Sarah Conner!!11!1!!

(pretty good read though)  :-)

On edit:

Obligatory Bill Paxton... (warning, drops an f-bomb)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xm1XErUvXo[/youtube]

Title: Re: "game over for humans"
Post by: Lord Undies on May 18, 2009, 06:03:28 PM

How about a computer playing Monopoly against the Barney Frwanks?  That's entertainment!