<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"> But the visuals for something like this would be spectacular, and if they do some epic wipeouts,  spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">Game software depicting football etc. look really hokie, but of course they will improve.  Why not cycle racing virtual?  If you can't tell the difference between the software and the real thing there's no reason to have the real thing - at least in this case.  Sure, people would come out to see real apes or people, but what size audience is that compared to millions of gamers?  The money is in software not hardware, eh?  And betting.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">bill w  </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 9:41 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Jan 22, 2017  William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.7143px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Now here is what I would be totally shocked by:  an AI decides to write a poem or sonata or draw a picture without any input from humans,</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​There is a short SF movie called ​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​"​</div>Sunspring<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​", it's acted and directed by humans but the script was written by a AI named "</div>Benjamin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​", the AI</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> even wrote a pop song for the soundtrack,  <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​but I should warn you </div></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Citizen Kane<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ it's not:​</div></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7x2Ihqjmc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=LY7x2Ihqjmc</a>​</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><br></div><div class="m_5896105884607892740gmail-m_1715882837940090254gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="m_5896105884607892740gmail-m_1715882837940090254gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_5896105884607892740gmail-m_1715882837940090254gmail-m_700068034471161862HOEnZb"><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