I hate to see this, but it looks like the machine is getting some characters....scary...we are getting close to 2001...
IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
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#23You can kiss my shiny, metal, mainframe!
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#24Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time:
"We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our clients to harness the power of best practices in order to shift their paradigms and achieve 10X deltas against competitive industry metrics."
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#25I like how someone commented on the main article that the time is getting close to where AI can step up to the plate of creativeness and how widespread and easy this will make our lives. Watson is a giant server farm, not a single PC, this stuff won't make a huge impact until IBM can shrink it or until computers get much much faster and smaller. Not that it won't happen, it's just not "around the corner" in any way.
"Google Search runs on a giant server farm. It won't really make a huge impact until it can run on a single PC."
Can you explain why your argument is valid, but the one above isn't?
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#26I like how someone commented on the main article that the time is getting close to where AI can step up to the plate of creativeness and how widespread and easy this will make our lives. Watson is a giant server farm, not a single PC, this stuff won't make a huge impact until IBM can shrink it or until computers get much much faster and smaller. Not that it won't happen, it's just not "around the corner" in any way.
Wireless communication is widespread enough that I don't think it matters too much where Watson "lives". The inputs and outputs required from "him" (for questioning, anyway, not for training) are tiny, so bandwidth isn't much of a concern. Assuming the architecture for it is parallel enough that it can be responding to lots of people at once how much it is distributed vs hosted on one system isn't particularly releva…
I question how well Watson would handle single questions at a time being asked compared to the millions of requests a day it would get if it was setup like say, Siri. Not that you are wrong in any way, they could certainly scale into an even bigger server farm and use the internet to deliver the questions and answers, I just wonder how much more server's they'd need.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.
Then I suppose someone should tell Google their bullshit detector is broken.
In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.
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#28Why not have Watson learn both Urban Dictionary and Miss Manners? Seems a shame to have it lose the UD knowledge.
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#29I am more interested as to how they "..scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory." - is it trivial to just delete something learned by AI?
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#30I like how someone commented on the main article that the time is getting close to where AI can step up to the plate of creativeness and how widespread and easy this will make our lives. Watson is a giant server farm, not a single PC, this stuff won't make a huge impact until IBM can shrink it or until computers get much much faster and smaller. Not that it won't happen, it's just not "around the corner" in any way.
I don't think robots will ever be completely autonomous. There will always be Skynet or a central data center which feeds information and controls each machine. Otherwise, things could potentially get out of hand if machines are intelligent enough and all indicators indicate that they very well will be within the next 100 years if not less.