Computers have been able to do certain jobs more quickly than humans for quite some time. But a man from Poland has shown the world that computers, robots and AI haven’t taken over just yet.
A 41-year-old programmer, often known by his online name “Psyho,” won a 10-hour coding competition in Tokyo this July. He was the only person in the competition to beat the one AI competitor.
However, Psyho, whose real name is Przemysław Dębiak (“psheh-MEE-swaf DEM-byak”), said this may be the last time a human wins the competition.
Competitors at the AtCoder World Tour Finals were asked to complete a very difficult optimization problem. This meant they had to write code to find the best solution to a problem.
Psyho, who won 500,000 yen — around $3,400 — for his work, said that at the moment the world’s best coders are still better than AI at solving problems like these.
However, humans are slower because it takes us time to type the code, while AI is able to produce a lot of code much more quickly than a human can type.
“AI might not be the smartest right now but it’s definitely the fastest,” he said.
Part of the reason why AI is so good is because of people like Psyho. He used to work for OpenAI, which is one of the world’s biggest AI companies.
Psyho said it would be “a little bit frustrating” to be beaten by AI in the future.
