Re:Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020)
by ummonk on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:47PM
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A mechanical system having better consistency than a human is hardly much of an achievement in this day and age? And you don't need deep reinforcement learning to adapt to changing ice conditions. You could just apply a basic Kentucky windage style control algorithm instead.
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Re:Robot AI beats world-class curling competitors (2020)
by exporectomy on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:31PM
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Hmm. Maybe the problem really is too complex for that? "the external factors are intrinsically unpredictable and have strong nonstationarity because the friction of the ice essentially changes with every throw.". But it would have been more impressive if they actually compared to such a classical algorithm - made by someone else who was actually trying to be competitive. There don't seem to be any others though.