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Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by carbocation on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:04PM (#11275596)
In the age of Deep Blue, do young chess prodigies have a future?
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by daveguy on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:04PM (#11275602)
Someone should ask Magnus Carlsen.

Edit: fortunately the fine article brings this up and goes further to point out that go is fundamental to self improvement in some cultures and will likely have a long life after AlphaGo.

Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by JorgeGT on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:13PM (#11275628)
[13th century] In the age of gunpowder, do young archery prodigies have a future?
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by daveguy on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:33PM (#11275690)
This is a good one. It was still many many centuries later before it stopped being a tool in war and from a competitive prospect it is still kickin (although not pervasive)
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by zhemao on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:06PM (#11275605)
In the age of Watson, does Jeopardy have a future?
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by conanbatt on Sunday March 13, 2016 @03:51AM (#11276662)
Did Jeopardy ever really have a purpose?
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by oldmanjay on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:27AM (#11276747)
Jeopardy has many purposes. It provides employment, entertainment, and a cultural touchstone, as well as a benchmark of our quest to replicate our nature. Relatively few things have more purpose.
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by verroq on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:29PM (#11275683)
In the age of high tech robot replacements, do unskilled factory workers have a future?
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by hemdawgz on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:51PM (#11275751)
This one unfortunately isn't analogous with the others.
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by iopq on Saturday March 12, 2016 @09:04PM (#11275784)
They actually do not.
Re:In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies ... by ZenoArrow on Sunday March 13, 2016 @06:40AM (#11277171)
The analogy only works if people do the particular activity for pleasure, so the question becomes... is it possible to find pleasure in factory work? One could argue that it's possible, but it may look different to what it does today. Some people may enjoy the feeling of refined manual dexterity, so games could emerge where activities like packing boxes at speed becomes a sport, in a similar vein to how cup stacking is a sport now.