What’s funny is that back then, at the beginning of the new decade (the 1970’s), there was no internet, not even in science fiction, so the ancient game required a live person to play against. What a concept! Today? You can learn how to play Go online, learning the rules and, like Chess, play against an AI at varying degrees of difficulty. For free. Check it out, folks. It can be addictive, but more fun against a person, naturally, sitting across from each other with a Go board in between, each with a bowl of about 180 convex stones, one with black, one with white. The best Go sets use actual stones, but heavy, high quality pieces of some other material, like plastic (boo!), are not uncommon, and less expensive. Unlike chess, the better player (white) will let the lesser player go first and, also unlike chess, you can give your opponent a handicap by letting him or her place one or more stones on their choice of certain designated places on the board. Then the game begins. Anyone who enjoys Chess should really enjoy Go. They may even enjoy it more. The rules are simple, the games incredibly complex. Learning different strategies takes time. Heck, there are books and articles about it, but I suggest just diving in there.
Quarantine Spot this has a little dancing intro to the above Spot spot According to this article on May 6th release of Spot 2.0, the engineers are self-quarantined, each with their Spot at home ... doing interesting and silly videos. Spot 2.0 touts advanced navigation, improved ability to climb stairs (now recognizes them as stairs, vs generalized hill terrain). https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton...autonomy-payload-integration-and-stair-smarts Boston Dynamics is realizing they need to focus on getting Spot to do the boring things v stuff like backflips, etc. Something worries me about this. Boring means blending in to me. Don't get noticed, Spot! Raibert agrees. “Our history is to try and do anything but be boring, but we’re trying to do something new for us—to do boring stuff and have the result be boring, because that’s what people need.”
Part of me really wanted that guy in the red shirt to yell "WuTang" or something as he ran by and just kick the **** out of that robot.
I watch **** like this and don't understand how this isn't so obviously the setup for a dystopian nightmare. Drill a hole in your head and insert a computer that tells your brain what to do. Sure.
It's Singapore. There's probably a fine for touching Spot. It wouldn't surprise me if Spot also reports on people littering and jay walking.
My dog would be barking at the damn thing like crazy. She obeys her family, not some damn machine. Not that I have anything against robots in general, of course. Just robots that look like human beings.
