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back to article You've heard of Michael 'Air' Jordan – well, get ready for 'AI-R' Jordan

Skynet is getting closer. Ish. Artificially intelligent software has now picked up a devastating new skill after observing humans. It can now, er, dribble a basketball. Boomshakalaka! A pair of brainiacs – Jessica Hodgins at Carnegie Mellon University in the US and Libin Liu at DeepMotion, a Silicon Valley startup creating …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Terminator

    Except that the computer is not actually dribbling a basketball...

    Just making a somewhat more realistic-looking version of NBA Live. I'd be more impressed with a robot, like one of those scary Boston Robotics units, that had great basketball handles...

    And can our future AI overlords ever really be "en fuego"? I don't think so.

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  2. big_D Silver badge
    Boffin

    Big hands...

    Do all basketball players have such overdeveloped hands? They are unproportionally big and the fingers too long for the body of the "player". Creepy.

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  3. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Trollface

    Oh great

    Now we're going to need a frakking supercomputer to play the next version of Crysis . . .

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  4. Snowy Silver badge
    FAIL

    Sure

    Looks realistic to me /sarcasm

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  5. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Joke

    Too easy

    Any videos of the Artiste formerly known as "Jordon" dribbling a basket ball that can be used for training? It's a more "complex" dataset, with the need to consider the independent motion of (Bulgarian) air bags...

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