Can Skynet be far behind?
November 5, 2013 6:13 AM Subscribe
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Good ol' `rock'. Nuthin' beats that!
posted by bondcliff at 6:18 AM on November 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by bondcliff at 6:18 AM on November 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
It sort of reminds me of how Hank Aaron would put his baseball cap over his eye and peer through the sweat holes at a pitcher to see exactly where he was releasing the throw. This giving him a clue as to what pitch was coming.
Good ol' `rock'. Nuthin' beats that!
*Plays rock, paper, scissors with son.*
*Throws out rock.*
*Son throws out two rocks.*
Hey that's cheat... never mind. Good move kid.
True story.
posted by three blind mice at 6:22 AM on November 5, 2013
Good ol' `rock'. Nuthin' beats that!
*Plays rock, paper, scissors with son.*
*Throws out rock.*
*Son throws out two rocks.*
Hey that's cheat... never mind. Good move kid.
True story.
posted by three blind mice at 6:22 AM on November 5, 2013
Hmm. So since this always is responding to your action - just doing so at blindingly fast speeds... it seems that this is sort of a defacto cheat. This robot could never face an identical robot since both would be relying effectively on the other to both start the signal and to shoot first. This is the Greedo of robotic RPS.
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:26 AM on November 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:26 AM on November 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent o..."
[Always Correct Movie Quote Bot would like to interject that the OP was actually referencing Terminator, not the Matrix. Skynet is the fictional, self-aware artificial intelligence system which features centrally in the Terminator franchise and serves as the franchise's main antagonist... Whereas in the Matr....]
(kicks power cord out of socket, douses robot in gasoline and sets on fire)
FTW.
posted by Debaser626 at 6:30 AM on November 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
[Always Correct Movie Quote Bot would like to interject that the OP was actually referencing Terminator, not the Matrix. Skynet is the fictional, self-aware artificial intelligence system which features centrally in the Terminator franchise and serves as the franchise's main antagonist... Whereas in the Matr....]
(kicks power cord out of socket, douses robot in gasoline and sets on fire)
FTW.
posted by Debaser626 at 6:30 AM on November 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
This robot could never face an identical robot since both would be relying effectively on the other to both start the signal and to shoot first.
Yeah, the irony is that the robot wins by moving more slowly than the human (usually we think of computers as being able to beat humans because they're faster).
I wonder if you could just move more slowly than the robot and beat it every time. Like, keep you fist closed until it jumped on paper and then move your fingers into scissors. You could even do it with your eyes closed!
posted by grog at 6:36 AM on November 5, 2013
Yeah, the irony is that the robot wins by moving more slowly than the human (usually we think of computers as being able to beat humans because they're faster).
I wonder if you could just move more slowly than the robot and beat it every time. Like, keep you fist closed until it jumped on paper and then move your fingers into scissors. You could even do it with your eyes closed!
posted by grog at 6:36 AM on November 5, 2013
Yeah, that's definitely cheating. And a relief.
A faster than the human eye robot is not as awful as a mind-reading robot.
posted by notyou at 6:36 AM on November 5, 2013
A faster than the human eye robot is not as awful as a mind-reading robot.
posted by notyou at 6:36 AM on November 5, 2013
This robot could never face an identical robot since both would be relying effectively on the other to both start the signal and to shoot first.
Add another robot race and Daleks, and this is basically what drives plot of the Doctor Who episode "Destiny of the Daleks"; the Doctor and Romana even use rock-paper-scissors as an example of a logical stalemate (which makes no sense, but whatever...).
What I'm saying is "Good news -- after the rock-scissor-robots overthrow our society and leave us for dead, they will dig us up in an attempt to mine our human flaws!"
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:07 AM on November 5, 2013
Add another robot race and Daleks, and this is basically what drives plot of the Doctor Who episode "Destiny of the Daleks"; the Doctor and Romana even use rock-paper-scissors as an example of a logical stalemate (which makes no sense, but whatever...).
What I'm saying is "Good news -- after the rock-scissor-robots overthrow our society and leave us for dead, they will dig us up in an attempt to mine our human flaws!"
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:07 AM on November 5, 2013
So this is just a robotics application of high-frequency stock trading, right?
posted by hanoixan at 7:38 AM on November 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by hanoixan at 7:38 AM on November 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
There are robots that play RPS without cheating. And they are really, really good.
posted by painquale at 7:38 AM on November 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by painquale at 7:38 AM on November 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
haha if you keep throwing scissors it looks like the robot's jackin' it
posted by MangyCarface at 8:12 AM on November 5, 2013
posted by MangyCarface at 8:12 AM on November 5, 2013
Joke's on you, the robot is jackin' it. Look out below!
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 8:42 AM on November 5, 2013
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 8:42 AM on November 5, 2013
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(kicks power cord out of socket, douses robot in gasoline and sets on fire)
Bo.
I win.
posted by eriko at 6:16 AM on November 5, 2013 [2 favorites]