Thread: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
In the latest Wired Magazine (April 2010, page 42) it addressed this issue. Article was called "Advantage: Cyborgs". It asked the question which is smarter humans or machines? As an example machines have been beating humans in chess for years. But if you combine humans with machines as a team they beat both the human alone and the machine alone because the team uses the strength of each.

Really if a FRC machine is done well it is a cyborg of the drivers and machine, each playing the part they do best. I have always pushed for putting as much as intelligence in the machine to help the drivers.

So you drivers and teams out there on the fields are really cyborgs killing off your opponents.
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