Man vs. machine: DeepMindâs new robot serves up a table tennis triumph
>formatting linkHuman-beating ping-pong AI learned to play in a simulated environment.
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>Cool, motor drive, cameras, neural networks....
>Speed!
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>Now to the olympics with AI!
I played a couple of games with the world's 16th best table tennis player. I couldn't return a single shot. At the pro level, it's all about english, spin, and I doubt that the AI thing could handle that.
He wasn't a very good engineer.