Unbeatable Rock, Paper, Scissors Opponent

moondoggy23

moondoggy23

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Researchers in a lab in Tokyo have created a robot that never loses in Rock, Paper, Scissors. The robot uses a high-speed camera to determine which move you're about to make and will play accordingly well before you finish laying out your move. Basically, the thing cheats, in a way. No word on whether it plays Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock, however.
 
lacar1601

lacar1601

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I wonder if I can trick it by feinting paper and playing rock. On my third stroke, I would extend my knuckles out from a fist to form a sort of bear palm. The high speed processing of which would indicate that I'm about to play paper. However, half way down my third stroke, I would retract my knuckles back into a fist.
I doubt this would work, as the high speed processing of that part would indicate rock. My only hope is to be fast enough to confuse it.
 
JerzeyLegend

JerzeyLegend

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Hawke said:
It's cheating by waiting for the opponent to move first
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Yes... and no.

Its a computer, it has to process the move. However it has to be predictive. In slow motion you see that it decides a split second after. It's calculating an extreme amount of information in a second.

I wonder if the computer always goes on third or if you can keep it going by shaking your first.

This is pretty amazing actually. Now I want a robot that plays the hand slapping game.
 
Hawke

Hawke

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I always thought that rock paper scissors was a game of chance rather than a game of motoric and attention skills in it's core, so unless the robot can predict the future, it's just really fast.
 
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