Rill
10-13-2003, 10:14 PM
New Scientist has an article (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994263) that some of you may find interesting. Interestingly enough, agility is not an issue, the problem lies in making the robots intelligent enough - the same problem that apparently plagues the Robocup (http://www.robocup.org/) to some extent.
My former Sifu used to quite often propose that if you could program your brain the way you could do a computer then you'd do quite well at Wing Chun. If you can nullify reaction time, and emulate chi sao experience by using faster processors with branch prediction, then my robot army can get underway at last!
You could probably also implement a neural network and train it by doing standard chi sao, which would help eliminate any problems that might occur with branching - the scene from the end of Cyber City Oedo Volume 1 comes to mind, where the simulation fails to kill the main character because he ends up just walking in a straight line at it rather than leaping all over the place.
Looks like Gibson's vision of corporate ninjas or Bladerunner's 'Roy' may not be too far off.
My former Sifu used to quite often propose that if you could program your brain the way you could do a computer then you'd do quite well at Wing Chun. If you can nullify reaction time, and emulate chi sao experience by using faster processors with branch prediction, then my robot army can get underway at last!
You could probably also implement a neural network and train it by doing standard chi sao, which would help eliminate any problems that might occur with branching - the scene from the end of Cyber City Oedo Volume 1 comes to mind, where the simulation fails to kill the main character because he ends up just walking in a straight line at it rather than leaping all over the place.
Looks like Gibson's vision of corporate ninjas or Bladerunner's 'Roy' may not be too far off.