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Letter: Unfair advantages in other contests

Published 21 August 2024

From Martin van Raay, Culemborg, The Netherlands

You speak of doping in sports as an unfair advantage. I agree. But a few pages later in the same issue (p 11) you report that a Google AI has achieved a silver medal score in a human mathematics competition (Leader, 3 August).

Considering that a computer uses much more energy than a human brain, could you call that doping? And should the AI be disqualified or at least banned from competing until it uses as little energy as my brain does?

Issue no. 3505 published 24 August 2024

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