How smart are the Robot Gladiators®?
One of the most advanced robot pioneers, Dr. Hans Moravec of Carnegie Mellon’s robot lab, estimates that today’s Pentium Pro computer has the intelligence of a small reptile. Presently, humans are smarter and far faster, yet many reptiles are capable of killing larger prey. Computer control is actually more common place in our world than we think. Few of us think about the number of functions in our cars that on-board computers constantly monitor and adjust. Another surprising example is that every commercial airliner lands at least once per month entirely controlled by computer. Many scientists are already boldly stating that the demise of humans is within view. Machines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful with each passing year. Unlike us, they do not make the same mistake twice with proper programming. Computers struggled for decades to beat a human at chess and then, suddenly, our reign was over. The machine won. And would never lose consistently again. Just like Deep B
