Here is an article worth reading and kind of a cool gif, if you’re in the mood for reading something where nobody gets killed for a change.
It’s actually not a first of any kind, but in the steady march of the robots as they evolve to the point where they take over the Earth, there won’t be many more firsts until we wake up one morning and find we are no longer relevant at all, the torch has been passed, we have relegated ourselves to the dustbin of history, gone down in a blaze of glory as the match that lit the fire that consumed the world. There will just be a steady stream of small improvements.
Robo Gump
The search for life on other planets is at a similar stage. We’ve discovered exoplanets, we know that many of them have water, we are steadily refining our techniques, and one day we will have first contact but, until then, it will be a series of small and incremental achievements.
Back to the robots. Deep Blue can beat any Grand Master at chess, Watson is, without a doubt, the world champion at Jeopardy, and this is not the first time a robot football player has scored a goal against a human goalie. The thing is, every year the robots are getting better, the goals are becoming more frequent, and they are not flukes. Of course, the robots have a couple of advantages. They roll around on wheels, for one, where the human footballers have to make do with legs, and they appear to shoot the ball out like out of a baseball pitching machine, so in a sense they are not playing football by the same rules.
However, robot legs are becoming better and better and soon, robots who look completely human, who have walked down into the uncanny valley and out the other side, will be kicking human ass at football and every other sport. Their brain development, and eye-limb co0ordination, will also continue to improve. It is only a matter of time.
A very short time.
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