It's still an impressive feat.

Jeopardy bot has faster fingers than human competitors

Wheel of Fortune bot, who knows the whole dictionary and was trained with the data of all past games, wins a car and waves from the passenger seat.

They're not foes. They're tools baselined against human performance.

Let's come back here in a few years. Robots may brush. We may talk about how innovation iterates, regardless of nay-sayer.

Next up “robot beats F1 drivers” (on straightaway).

The implications from the title is that it beats them at curling. You certainly wouldn’t expect the article to be about a robot beating world class curlers at chess.

If sweeping wasn’t such an important part of the game (literally changing shots, which world class curlers would rely on as part of their throw technique) then the article would be fine.

It was played on a curling ring, with a curling stone, using the curling rules against curling players.

The robot just chose to play without a sweep, which I'm sure is still legal.

Exactly. I've stopped getting riled up about a catchy misleading headline. Life's too short. The interesting part is afer that.

Also, the "top" teams it was playing against were two women's teams and a handicap team, so they won't have been the actual top - probably just chosen so they can use the term "top-ranked".

If they'd called it a "wheelchair curling robot", it would have been accurate.

A positive point though is that South korea has nearly the top ranked women and wheelchair curling teams in the world. So they didn't just choose some shitty country's national players to call them "world-class".

Humans have built in limitations other than limited intelligence. For example, we have limited ability to remember stuff, our memory is not flawless, we can't perceive time or forces or distances with almost unlimited precision.

Claiming something is more intelligent than humans because it can use something else as leverage to accomplish the task is nonsense.

I am not better at calculating stuff in memory than you just because if I am allowed to use calculator and unlimited memory to beat you.

AI is not more intelligent at playing Starcraft because it can perfectly know what every single unit is doing at any point in time and can project exact resource goals into the future.

So it looks like it won without the need for brushing.

Let me remove all the stuff humans are good at, and then boast how superior AI is to humans.

I think the brushing can curve the stone more than just adding some spin. Also, you can brush so other stones move further after collisions.

However, I don't see why a "perfect" thrower couldn't beat a world class athlete if they're accurate enough.