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Google Goggles Solves Sudoku

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the better-it-than-me dept.

mikejuk writes "Ever been frustrated when you can't solve a Sudoku? Well, now there's an app for that. It is just one more capability in the latest version of Google Goggles. All you have to do is point your phone's camera at a Sudoku puzzle, take a snapshot, and pattern recognition and a bit of game logic sorts out the answer. Have you ever had the feeling that AI is getting to be just a little too commonplace?"

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  1. we hath defeated the purpose by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, it's cool technology, but this is almost as pointless as Homer Simpson's book of already-solved crossword puzzles.

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  2. solving Soduku by 56ker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the fun was in trying to solve it yourself, not through having a machine give you the correct answer.

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    1. Re:solving Soduku by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      go get your coat and hand in your geek card at the door. The fun is in writing the program that solves the puzzle

  3. Re:Stunning by peragrin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What AI though? Sudoku is pattern recongintion. It doesn't take an AI to solve one. There is more processing spent on image analysis than actual problem solving.

    When I think AI I think of some that can create on it's own. Not learn, not solve but create.

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