Humans Need Not Apply

[jesmu84]

An interesting video to take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU


"Unemployable through no fault of their own"? Yea, that's going to go over well with certain segments of the population. IF this scenario ever comes to pass, it'll be very interesting to see how our country reacts. The paradigm would have to shift to a more socialist world, and there are groups who would never accept that. Humans will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, for sure.

[Tugg Speedman]

When will we watch the MU bots take on the Georgetown bots in a basketball game?  Will our heros be in the arena or the engineers in the Olin building that designed them?  Is their a young freshman engineer that is the future head-coach of the MU bot basketball team?


Follow-up ....

If you think it is impossible that we will replace human athletes with machine athletes, think about the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).  As the picture below shows, thousands of spectators attend these competitions (dare I say more than a Depaul game!) to watch gamers compete against each other.  Restated, thousands of cheering fans watch one programmer with his computer (AKA, gamer at his console) trying to outwit another programmer and his computer.  

[Benny B]

I'm going to help you all out in getting ahead of the curve on this one.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4510

[mu03eng]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords and hope their rein to be an efficient one.

[TheBurrEffect]

When will we watch the MU bots take on the Georgetown bots in a basketball game?  Will our heros be in the arena or the engineers in the Olin building that designed them?  Is their a young freshman engineer that is the future head-coach of the MU bot basketball team?


Follow-up ....

If you think it is impossible that we will replace machine athletes with human athletes, think about the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).  As the picture below shows, thousands of spectators attend these competitions (dare I say more than a Depual game!) to watch gamers compete against each other.  Restated, thousands of cheering fans watch one programmer with his computer (AKA, gamer at his console) trying to outwit another programmer and his computer.  

The esports thing is kind of an awful comparison. They are still using athletic abilities, not programming. Ie the best of the best have insane reaction times, a quick mind, insane gamesense, and then theirs the incredible amounts of strategy that go with it. If you look closely enough, you can see the majority of them are not fat, over weight, out of shape panda bears.

Also the latest tournament sold out the entire Staples Center in LA with around 20,000 seating capacity and was featured on espn 3 if I remember correctly. So much more then the average depaul game, or wisconsin game, or marquette game.

[jesmu84]

When will we watch the MU bots take on the Georgetown bots in a basketball game?  Will our heros be in the arena or the engineers in the Olin building that designed them?  Is their a young freshman engineer that is the future head-coach of the MU bot basketball team?


Follow-up ....

If you think it is impossible that we will replace human athletes with machine athletes, think about the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).  As the picture below shows, thousands of spectators attend these competitions (dare I say more than a Depaul game!) to watch gamers compete against each other.  Restated, thousands of cheering fans watch one programmer with his computer (AKA, gamer at his console) trying to outwit another programmer and his computer.  

Yea... cause that was the focus of the video.

[77ncaachamps]

She's my hero! - future 10 yo gamer




LOL




Seriously, coding needs to be taught in schools. We started it as an after school program. Who made up the class? 90% were students who had a parent who was an engineer.

[mu-rara]

The bots reviewing resumes have almost taken "Human" out of "Human Resources".

[TheBurrEffect]

Seriously, coding needs to be taught in schools. We started it as an after school program. Who made up the class? 90% were students who had a parent who was an engineer.

Gotta give it a few more years still. Remember the majority of the best coders are in their 20's now as teaching themselves was a way better option then going to school for it until about 5 years ago. Letting these guys get into their 30's and then start teaching is a better option.

[Stronghold]

When will we watch the MU bots take on the Georgetown bots in a basketball game?  Will our heros be in the arena or the engineers in the Olin building that designed them?  Is their a young freshman engineer that is the future head-coach of the MU bot basketball team?


Follow-up ....

If you think it is impossible that we will replace human athletes with machine athletes, think about the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).  As the picture below shows, thousands of spectators attend these competitions (dare I say more than a Depaul game!) to watch gamers compete against each other.  Restated, thousands of cheering fans watch one programmer with his computer (AKA, gamer at his console) trying to outwit another programmer and his computer.  

The winners of the largest worldwide tournament of the game pictured (DOTA 2) recently won $5,000,000+ to be split among their 5-man team.