Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by ideasrule

Just to give an idea of how hard a good autonomous robot is, there's no computer in the world that comes close to matching the flexible and creative thinking of the human brain, nor is there a computer with the lifetime of experience that human robot drivers have. Making a robot smarter than a human isn't like CADing a robot framework; it's like designing a fusion reactor in 6 weeks, especially since decades of research by professional scientists haven't been able to do it.

If anybody plays real-time strategy games, the AI in them took a whole team of well-funded programmers years to write and debug. Even so, it can't compete with even moderately experienced gamers on an equal footing, and is very easy to exploit.

You do make a good point, but where in the world does it ever say we are having a similar game next year? For all I know, it can be football, which is all pre layed out plays and stuff...