GT5 AI problems

For the past week the interents have been buzzing about how disappointing the AI of the new Gran Turismo is. I am always suspicious about those kind of things especially now that the major competitor of the GT franchise is Microsoft's Forza Motorsport. GT has been 6 years in the making and everyone expected something beyond perfect. I still have not bought it myself since my PS3 time is occupied with other games.

After reading countless reviews and still not convinced about the seriousness of the AI problems I stumbled upon this video that shows the artificial stupidity plain and simple. Enjoy:

Dr. Claw may not be ready yet but his cat is!

Ars Technica published an article yesterday about IBM creating a super computer that is significantly "smarter" than a cat having around 4.5% of the capacity of the human brain.

This is good news, right? Or is it not? Oh well i guess that too many years of watching/reading/playing the destruction of the human race from machines have that effect. At any rate this is very exciting news!

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at IBM have presented at paper at the SC09 supercomputing conference describing a milestone in cognitive computing: the group's massively parallel cortical simulator, C2, now has the ability to simulate a brain with about 4.5 percent the cerebral cortex capacity of a human brain, and significantly more brain capacity than a cat.