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Offline ReardenSteel

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"game over for humans"
« 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)  :-)

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Obligatory Bill Paxton... (warning, drops an f-bomb)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xm1XErUvXo[/youtube]
« Last Edit: May 18, 2009, 05:59:36 PM by ReardenSteel »
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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

- Ayn Rand
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1826

Offline Lord Undies

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Re: "game over for humans"
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2009, 06:03:28 PM »
How about a computer playing Monopoly against the Barney Frwanks?  That's entertainment!
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