I was reading up this cool exploit (PDF) in flash found out by the great Mark Dowd. Seriously, it is crazy shit! The exploit. Then I read up the way Mark discovered and it is even crazier.
A choice quote :
Has Mark Dowd simply outclassed us? Should we pack it up and quit?
Yes. But don’t feel bad about that. You’re a human being, and he’s a remorseless killing machine. Big Blue crushed Kasparov, and now he’s not the prime minister of Russia! At a certain point, you have to concede the field, moving on to games where human beings still have the advantage. Computers haven’t solved Go, for instance. For us researchers, I suggest we take advantage of Mark Dowd’s robotic inability to love, and take up the arts, such as watercolors or interpretive dance.
No wonder it was also compared to the insane super mario brothers version , which purportedly “Japan refused to ship to the US markets because they thought the difficulty would upset and provoke us ” . See the video to know what they are talking about. (audio maybe NSFW).
