Superfast rock-paper-scissors robot wins every time
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The algorithm is also likely foolable by throwing what appears to be one symbol (e.g. rock), but then morphs into another symbol (two fingers go out late in the symbol formation, in order to present scissors upon completion of the movement).
A comparison of the reaction time of this robot vs. say... Google's automonous driving car, or vs. an automatic stock trading machine, might present the robot as interesting.
Multiple cameras and a wide variety of acceptable symbol geometries on the part of the human player (rock rotated 90 degrees, the use of two hands, etc) would add realistic complexity... and would require more complex recognition algorithms, likely slowing down the reaction time of the robot.
Rock Paper Scissors is only one trick of many, but of course it's the only one the media is interested in. Oh well.
I wonder if our real robots could do such thing with a pencil.
I'd probably lose rock-paper-scissors if you blind-folded me, too.
Though I guess I'm backwards enough to have grown up calling it "Paper Rock Scissors", so I might be oblivious to something here.
Also, at this point I have no idea why we played rock-paper-scissors so much in 3rd grade, but we did.
However, if we are okay with using all your abilities to win and not count that as cheating, I can guarantee I win every time against that robot. I'd just remove the power source.
Or, because you've achieved the mission goals?
You're begging the question. Achieving the same goals with different rules is a different game. Using stilts and a machine gun to get a ball in a hoop is not basketball.
I don't think the Kobayashi Maru test rules said anything about "don't try to break the game". Success can result from relaxing an irrelevant requirement.
Version 3 turns off the human crew's life support if you try and remove it's power source.
Version 4 uses time travel to kill your parents.
That's not really a bad thing, of course, because it's just a bit of fun and an interesting technical achievement. But as far as RPS goes, it's indisputably cheating.
On a less jaded note, this is a pretty neat computer vision application.
Dude, I saw that as little kid and it freaked me the hell out. Relentless bald man chased my nightmares for years.
Also, dude! I thought that movie too old / HN too young to remember that sci-fi golden age classic. Thanks for making my day. Although, I worry about bald bad ass chasing me tonight.
Clint Eastwood && Yul Brynner.