Watson's voice isn't menacing enough.
IBM's "Watson" finally ready for prime-time Jeopardy
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#32Affordable tablets, intelligent computers, commercial space travel... it's so great to live in the future. Now, won't somebody please design a viable successor to the Concorde?
First we need a viable airline industry any where in the world.
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#33Re: IBM's "Watson" finally ready for prime-time Jeopardy
#34I've looked around a bit but couldn't find any information on how the game state and clues are input to Watson. Are they typed in on the fly? Pre-loaded and just revealed as clues are selected? Is it parsing speech and reading the board visually?
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#35http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
A classic use of watson that IBM is saying is in the field of medical science - Imagine if we can feed the entire set of medical books into watson (somebody estimated that would just take about a week for watson to process and make the connections) and then you have the watson physician's assistant which can listen into the symptoms and spit out the first five most probably causes - that would be so damn amazing!
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#36How much of the Watson code is Java?
I don't know the percentages but Watson is built on UIAM http://uima.apache.org/ which has bits in C++ and bits in Java. From there I am sure different teams used language bindings to use the language that best suited their particular needs to accomplish their tasks. Not that I know it to be true, but I would not be at all surprised to find R, Haskel and even some lisp in their somewhere.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Watson is not a simulation any more than your brain is a simulation. Your brain is ( likely ) mostly just algorithms and data structures, albeit on an enormous scale. This could be wrong, but I'm betting not. What else could the brain possibly be? It's not magic. > We will know when Watson is dangerous when it feels fear, angst, want. Not just an algorithm to sort facts and simulate speech. Nah. Look at good science…
I deny that the human brain IS algorithms. It is neurons connected by dendrons/synapses. Right? Small bits of it can be algorithmically simulated. Large processes can be algorithmically simulated. But to call the algorithm "intelligence" is sympathetic magic. Algorithms work in a different way; they break in a different way; they are hard-coded so don't change. They are a simulation.
"I deny that the human brain IS algorithms. It is neurons connected by dendrons/synapses. Right?"
"I deny that Watson IS algorithms. It is transistors assembled into logic gates. Right?"
My statement is obviously a silly thing to say. Watson is both algorithms and transistors, depending on how you care to think about it. If you believe that your statement is not equally silly, please explain.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I deny that the human brain IS algorithms. It is neurons connected by dendrons/synapses. Right? Small bits of it can be algorithmically simulated. Large processes can be algorithmically simulated. But to call the algorithm "intelligence" is sympathetic magic. Algorithms work in a different way; they break in a different way; they are hard-coded so don't change. They are a simulation.
No disrespect intended but, I think you are lacking a fundamental understanding of machine learning, genetic algorithms, neural networks and AI in general. I was introduced to Watson when I took a sub-project from IBM related to Watson, I had no idea what it was untill taking the contract, at which point I was introduced to Watson and it is an impressive feat, it is with out a doubt the state of the art in NLP AI. Su…
I think anyone who has worked in the field of AI would admit there are a lot of philosophical questions around the definition of intelligence and it's relationship to algorithmic problem solving.
One of my favourite thought experiments in the area being Searle's Chinese Room:
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#39This is going to be, for lack of better words, epic. On a personal level however, it's a reminder of how truly wondrous the future is. When Deep Blue beat Kasparov I was a kid in an Italian high school, trying to explain to disinterested fellow students why that was a big deal. Not even in my wildest dreams I would have imagined to be working for the company that made that and this event possible, in a different coun…
I love seeing this type of response. It's similar to the race to put a man on the moon. Some technology should be there to inspire.
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#40http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
They can win at Jeopardy but they can't build a URL structure without annoying machine/network identifiers. :)