| The Game |
February 5, 2018
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| This game was popular among people, especially men. It was simple. It was like 'Hide & Seek' but it was played between robots and humans. A robot maker developed this game. They wanted to produce robot soldiers and they needed to experiment. They couldn't do experiments during live battles because citizens were very negative towards the use of robots for war, so they thought that they could get better 'know-how' through this game. The rules were simple. A human and a robot would shake hands, and then separate. After five minutes, they would start to look for each other. If one found the other, the one would call out, "I found you!" It would be the end of the game. Each playing block was decided in advance and announced to the gamers. The game would be repeated until the human lost the game. His match was a young man shaped robot. They were instructed that they had to move inside of the block, outside of that  area one would be disqualified. Their first match started. After shaking hands, he hid once, and started to follow the robot. When 5 minutes had passed, he rushed towards to the robot and called out, "I found you." It was a piece of cake. The next week, the second match was held. He couldn't use the same strategy twice. The robot was the same. After they separated, he went to the back of a building and changed his reversible jacket inside out, he put on sunglasses and a cap. After 5 minutes, he started to approach the robot from the front. The robot didn't notice it was him. He won. The robot must have learned from this game that humans would fool others by changing their clothes, he thought. At the third match, he used a wig and a fake beard, and easily won. The robot must have learned people would use disguises, he thought. At the fourth match, he entered a restaurant that had mirror glass windows. From the inside he could see outside, but from the outside people couldn't see inside. The robot passed by him, he went out of the restaurant and called out to the robot. The robot was surely learning, he thought. When he was looking at the robot from behind the mirror window at the restaurant, he noticed that the robot was wearing a long hair wig and blue contact lenses. At the fifth match, he was waiting at a beauty salon watching outside. The robot didn't think that men would enter a beauty salon. He won. At the sixth match, the robot entered a woman's restroom and a woman called the police. The police came and arrested the robot. He got a default win. At the seventh match, he disguised himself as an old man, wearing a white hair wig, bent back, having a cane. He walked slowly. The robot found him from a distance. Robots eyes were 10 times as good as humans'. The robot approached him from the back. When the robot was about to call out, he rapidly retuned and shouted, "It's you." He had been watching the robot from a mirror that was attached on his cane. The robot was surely learning, he thought. This time the robot found him out even though he was in a disguise. He felt fear. But, his fear wasn't because the robot was improving. His fear was because the robot was thinking without bias that human beings usually have. They don't think like, "This behavior is not manly," or, "If I did this, I would be laughed at by people." They don't have vanity, a sense of superiority or inferiority. Their way is always simple, trial and error. And they never do the same mistake again. "But...," he thought, "To come to think of it, is it a bad thing? If humans use robots suitably, it should be a good thing." But that was another story. He could see on his smartphone that he was ranked in the top ten at the moment. He couldn't be defeated this time. He had to use more creativity. He had his own original strategy from his long experience. He started to think about the next match, "How about riding on the back of a truck and searching? How about disguising as a beggar? How about pretending to be a florist, or a grocer, or a person who is asking questions for a survey? How about ... |
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*experiment 実験する
*in advance :前もって
*instruct :指示する
*strategy :戦略
*disguise :変装する
*cane :杖
*manly :男らしい
*vanity :虚栄心
*grocer :食料雑貨店員