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"Pick the most unsafe environment", followed by pictures of a house, a park, a volcano, a bed. My sense is that IBM's Watson could tackle this particular question. Also interesting to note that the question introduces external considerations, such as whether or not there's someone dangerous near the house, bed, park, etc. A human respondent will have to ignore the matter of whether there's additional context and seco…
Like Deep Blue, Watson represented a major advance in the state of weak AI. However at its core, it's still just a text-based statistical search engine. It has no ability to "learn" new abilities. Its algorithms will use previous answers to adjust ranking of answers, but once a category is finished, that data is lost. For new data, its database needs to be re-indexed. For new behavior like recognizing pictures or pla…
* "home and safe" "safe as houses" etc
* "safe in bed" "safely tucked up in bed" etc
* "volcano" ... no clear data. Certainly dangerous being a volcanologist, but that'd be great AI googlefu
* "pensioner attacked in park" .. "our parks are not safe" etc... Hmm, Parks are the most dangerous.
Because frequency of local newspaper reports is a bad measure for volcanos I guess.