djchump wrote:

Well, at least in the Robot Future there will always be employment for humans who own hockey sticks as robot-bulliers.

Like all Boston Dynamics, this is equal parts amazing and frightning. 

I have to say, after the guy finally knocks him over I was hoping the robot was going to get back up and clatter him. 

Which I suppose is a credit to Boston Dynamics for making robots that appear to move like a biological animal such that you end up feeling empathy when you see a bearded cunt pushing one around for no reason!

https://twitter.com/oliviasolon/status/702227884312698880

SpaceGazelle wrote:

Before the internet worked properly there was the DATA BLAST. Investigating why Fred Dinage doesn't age and found this. Data Blast starts at 3:48.

I worked on How 2 back in the day, in fact having now watched the video, I worked on that very episode. Show was made at the old STV studios at Cowcaddens.

Asimo's pretty cool. It's still a promotional tool, and mostly works on a flat track. But it's awesome.

Asimo and those stairs is still one of the very best "Nurse, the screens!" moments I've ever seen.

Not much more detail than poprock already posted, but the interview with AlphaGo's opponent is trite, yet somehow quite deep...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35746909

I mean his description of the latent "physicality" of the game makes you think a little about the whole idea of determinism... Interesting thing here though, is how the AI is said to "feel" it's way through a game, not solve it outright.

I think there's a video of Hassibis demonstrating similar software acting on old 2600 games a few pages back.

On now.

I've got a theory that Go is responsible for the more advanced game design coming out of Japan in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's the case now but Go used to be on TV regularly over there. I've got a few Go books that are just short puzzles like "take these three white stones" or "escape white's attack". There are a few puzzles drilling technique A, getting more advanced, then a few drilling technique B. Then they start throwing puzzles at you that look like you should be using technique B but it's a really advanced application of A. Looking at the back of the book there were notes about different editions having the order of the puzzles changed slightly for maximum learning potential.

It doesn't sound that special but I defy any gamer to get through one of those books and not be impressed by videogame-grade progression and signposting.

Everyone in the Go scene is really nice. I'd heard about a book that was good but couldn't find it anywhere so I emailed the author. He was travelling around america visiting schools to teach them Go for free.

One last Go fact. Searching for "Go" is hard work. It's a really common word and a much less common game.

Well... We all laughed after Republic, but Hassibis won't have to field any more questions about an infinite polygon engine for some time...

He may well be knighted before the year is up.
Would be the first time, probably in my life, where I'd think that's a cool thing.

I'm not a royalist, but you get the point.

Bend the knee.

What did you say about the infinite polygon engine?

This thread needs more robot realdolls. The true future of robotica!