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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.
I 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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I am more interested as to how they "..scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory." - is it trivial to just delete something learned by AI?
Watson's 'memory' is just a big database of facts, rules, and statistical models. To 'forget' a source they'd just have to rebuild any models derived from it and purge any facts it had extracted.
"Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity ... Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing ..." Sounds just like what happens when you raise kids. "Daddy why is XXX a good word but YYY a bad word?" "It just IS. Don't say that word again." "Ok Daddy" (kid adds word to internal blacklist)
I 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.
Nothing 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."
"We use our experience in this field to provide practical advice to our clients which helps them improve their way of doing business and ROFL-stomp their competition 10x over."