RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. When established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable of winning against the human soccer World Cup champions by 2050.
But will robots be able to do it by the end of year 2038?
(Changed the date from 2037 to 2038 because the world cup is every 4 years and there will be a world cup in 2038)
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3.00@DaviGerson AI is unreasonably effective with 2 player games that have clear objectives, like chess and go.
Each robotic AI players will have like thousands upon thousands of years of experience playing football non stop in a simulation.
24/7 without sleeping, resting, eating, 365.2422 days/365.2422 days, centuries after centuries, milenia after millenia.
Even with subpar robotics hardware compared to human athletes, humans likely won't stand a chance.
When it comes to the robotic/AI capabilities, I have very little doubts but if it doesn't happen; it will be because the human organisers/players are just kinda scared.
When kasparov fought deepblue he was confident, when lee sedol fought alphago he was confident. So maybe this happening depends on how good AI/Robotics companies are at hiding what they are capable of + humans over estimating what they can do.
@THEWINNER It's not a problem of strategic ability and more so one of physical capability. Football is a physical sport unlike chess, AI development isn't nearly as important for it. This basically just depends on the progress of robotics and I there's no way such a leap will happen anytime soon.
@BrunoParga Well if it doesn't happen by end of 2038 then it's lost, it's a gamble, I personally think that robotics and AI would have the capabilities to do that by the end of 2038 ... but will FIFA accept such an event? It's a gamble.
But I think FIFA should because this match is going to bring so much viewer, they'll make so much cash it's just absurd. Much like Lee Sedol's game attracted an absurd amount of people and an incredible spotlight on the world of go.
It would be the game of the century and deepmind is so set on doing this without really saying it https://sites.google.com/view/vision-soccer