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Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

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Post by neumann_alfred » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

cglace wrote: post #156

neumann_alfred wrote: post #135

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Are you saying being unable to whore out to good, clean and 100% trivial family entertainment, is actually equivalent to killing people? Why not have Watson investigate murder cases? Or even better, make sense of the words vs. actions of actual people holding power and influence right now? Why am I not holding my breath for this? Because it's hard, or because it's not ever going to be a priority in a million years? P…

No, I was just responding to the parents reductionist attitudes.

To be honest, I realized you probably were halfway through my rant, but ranted anyway. I'm not sure if I would agree that "bad language" can do all that much damage, but I do agree that "it's just words" is generally not an argument.

Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

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Post by sakopov » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 10:25 PM UTC

wiml wrote: post #48

sakopov wrote: post #30

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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.

You're arguing that we need Skynet in order to prevent the robots from getting out of hand?

Correct. I think as intelligence comes into play, SkyNet is going to be inevitable for preventative measures. Regardless of intelligence, you'd probably want a data center or a control panel of some sort for software updates, analytics and etc.

Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

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Post by path411 » Mon, Jan 14, 2013, 10:16 PM UTC

darkxanthos wrote: post #133

stingraycharles wrote: post #91

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I think you're confusing biz jargon with marketing. Tech jargon suffers from marketing too; it's just that we're used to so much more "meaningful" jargon that we see that the bullshit ratio is actually pretty low. The same can be said about business jargon, it's just that we don't hear the meaningful jargon a lot. Want to guess how much meaningful tech jargon the average MBA hears? Probably not a lot more than we hea…

A great example is "cloud" or "web scale" etc.

These actually have true meanings as Tech jargon. Biz/Marketing love to abuse buzzwords though.