Pre-Skynet is born.

[Hizumi]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0712133330.htm

In 2009, at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), researchers in the lab of Regina Barzilay, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, took the best-paper award for a system that generated scripts for installing a piece of software on a Windows computer by reviewing instructions posted on Microsoft's help site. At this year's ACL meeting, Barzilay, her graduate student S. R. K. Branavan and David Silver of University College London applied a similar approach to a more complicated problem: learning to play "Civilization," a computer game in which the player guides the development of a city into an empire across centuries of human history. When the researchers augmented a machine-learning system so that it could use a player's manual to guide the development of a game-playing strategy, its rate of victory jumped from 46 percent to 79 percent.

TL;DR

The computer read a Manual to Civilization and learned how to play despite not knowing the game beforehand


IT WAS ALSO WINNING CONSISTENTLY.

[firesnowball]

That's actually kind of scary considering the fact that Civilization is the game of politics, diplomacy, religion, nukes and world domination - all major facets of everyday life.

On a related note, I would like to welcome our new binary based overlords.

[Proxzor]

That's actually kind of scary considering the fact that Civilization is the game of politics, diplomacy, religion, nukes and world domination - all major facets of everyday life.

On a related note, I would like to welcome our new binary based overlords.

In 20 years everything will be calculated by computers...

[Ouriel]

Prepare for more job losses and human extinction.

[firesnowball]

I actually had an interesting chat about this the other day. What happens when everyones job is taken by a computer and the world is completely automated. Do humans go away? Does the world turn red and become a soviet russia under the control of the machines? Are computers our ultimate downfall?

[Oisterman]

Yes, we're phasing ourselves out.

No sarcasm.

Srsly.

[xBlazex]

I actually had an interesting chat about this the other day. What happens when everyones job is taken by a computer and the world is completely automated. Do humans go away? Does the world turn red and become a soviet russia under the control of the machines? Are computers our ultimate downfall?

computer cant replace humans. if they do that then no one have money to buy there stuff they go bankrupt