When we think of acrobatics, we don’t make any immediate association with robots. Well, apparently we should. Not even juggling is a purely human endeavour any more:
After calculation, measurement, data analysis, and chess, computers now also beat humans at Jeopardy:
IBM Watson Vanquishes Human Jeopardy Foes
Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM’s Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine. The run has successfully demonstrated not only that a computer can beat humans in a trivia question quiz, but, more importantly, it shows how computers can answer questions much like people do, opening up a potentially new form of human/computer interaction.
Soon computers be better drivers as well. Eventually computers will be better than humans at living. And then AIs might decide they don’t need their deeply flawed flesh-bag creators any more.