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Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050
mindpixel writes "The Scotsman is reporting that the Japanese are very confident they can build a robotic team that will win the World Cup by 2050 using a descendent of the 38cm tall VisiON which operates completely independently of human input, making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does."
Yet another product release by the Snake Oil corporation otherwise known as AI.
Content-free statements like the 2050 press release is what gives AI a bad name. Serious AI researchers would be well advised to ostracized people who make such half hazardly statements, yet they seem to embrace them: the overly (and misguidedly) ambitious robot soccer competition is part of the main conference in the field (IJCAI).
I'm sorry, but the "3 rules of robotics" are just some do-gooder blabbing that no one cares about the slightest.
In fact, military purposes are one of key fields for robots.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.