In a spectacle that confirms our future AI overlords will at least possess a fetching sense of rhythm, science communicator and poker champion Liv Boeree recently threw down the gauntlet against a rather nimble robot—widely believed to be Titan the Robot from Cyberstein Robots. The mechanical marvel didn’t just win; it absolutely sashayed its way to victory, leaving humanity’s representative looking a tad out of step. Our best bet for staving off total robotic domination, it seems, isn’t a philosophical debate or chess match, but a task at which they consistently fail: picking out all the crosswalks in a particularly grainy CAPTCHA.
