Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing that computers can’t beat us at: chess, Jeopardy, curing cancer… hell, even cooking pudding. Randall Munroe sums it up nicely in today’s XKCD.
https://gizmodo.com/fifteen-years-ago-today-a-computer-became-the-worlds-b-5909509
And if that weren’t depressing enough, he really knocks it out of the park with the alt-text, too:
‘At least humans are better at quietly amusing ourselves, oblivious to our pending obsolescence’ thought the human, as a nearby Dell Inspiron contentedly displayed the same bouncing geometric shape screensaver it had been running for years.
Now excuse me while I go sit in a corner and cry. [XKCD]
