“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”—American stand-up comic and actor Emo Phillips in “Quotes on Technology,” Reader’s Digest, June 2009
Maybe true back in 2009. But if the edge lords of today’s tech world have anything to say in the matter (and they will, they will), you can bet that they’ll be crowing about the athletic ability of their latest AI-driven projects before long—even promoting a Computer Olympics.
(The image accompanying this post, of Emo Phillips
opening for Weird Al Yankovic at the Apollo Theater, was taken on Mar. 22,
2018, by slgckgc.)
