What Do We Gain by Automating a Pastime? by@thomasnield

What Do We Gain by Automating a Pastime?

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It is a bad idea to intuit how broadly intelligent a machine must be, or have the capacity to be, based solely on a single task. Even the best humans can easily be defeated by a search algorithm with simple heuristics. Gaming seems to be the main emphasis and focus at DeepMind, which is focused on video games like StarCraft II and DOTA 2. If an algorithm wins StarCraft, should not a human video gamer be just as valuable to strategic functions in corporations and the military?

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