This rudimentary robot hand, developed by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan, never loses at Rock, Paper, Scissors. It has a perfect record against everyone who’s ever challenged it, but that’s only because it can see and react faster than any human being can.
Using a high-speed camera the position and shape of the human competitor’s hand can be recognized, at which point the robot will play whatever it needs to win. And this all happens in about 1ms. It appears as if the robot is playing fairly. But it’s not. It’s actually blatantly cheating. But in this case that’s a good thing because it shows that man and machines might actually be able to work together very closely one day. Doing construction, exploring the stars, or just roaming the country as conmen.
There, they hold hands as they find the old desk they’d shared and where he had carved “I love you,Sally.”
On their way back home, a bag of money falls out of an armoured car practically at their feet. She quickly picks it up, but they don’t know what to do with it so they take it home. There, she counts the money, and it’s fifty-thousand pounds.
The husband says, “We’ve got to give it back.” She says, “Finders keepers.” And she puts the money back in the bag and hides it up in their attic.
The next day, two Detectives are going door-to-door in the neighbourhood looking for the money and show up at their home. They say, “Pardon me, but did either of you find any money that fell out of an armoured car yesterday?”
She says, “No.”
The husband says, “She’s lying. She hid it up in the attic.”
She says, “Don’t believe him, he’s going senile.”
But the Policemen sit the man down and begin to question him. One says, “Tell us the story from the beginning.” The old man says, “Well, when Sally and I were walking home from school yesterday…”
The senior Detective looks at his partner and says, “Come on, we’re outta here…”
