[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/watson-ibm-jeopardy-computer-_n_808774.html]The Huffington Post[/url]
[url=http://gizmodo.com/5733025/watch-ibms-jeopardy+playing-computer-obliterate-humanitys-champions]Gizmodo[/url]
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[quote=The Huffington post]IBM's Watson, a Jeopardy playing computer, has garnered a lot of attention, but hasn't really been seen in action. Until now.
Watson showed exactly what he was made of in the practice round for a special Jeopardy Champions round, which featured the machine alongside previous Jeopardy winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
Watson won the round with $4,400, according to ZDNet. Jennings finished second with $3,400, and Rutter trailed with $1,200.
Today's demonstration of the artificially intelligent Jeopardy question answering machine is a precursor for the first-ever real "man vs machine" Jeopardy competition, which will air on February 14, 15, and 16, according to Mashable.
IBM's machine aims to show the future of artificial intelligence, interpreting human speech and spitting out answers based on how it interprets what it hears, similar to the way humans do. According to ZD Net, who posed questions to the machine's creators after the demonstration, the quiz questions hit Watson's chips at about the same time it would take the human retina to interpret the questions displayed on screen.
Watson's biggest advantage? According to Rutter it's Watson's ability to weigh risks and make accurate wagers on "Double Jeopardy" question.
Is Watson the future of AI? Watch the video below and decide for yourself.[/quote]
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE[/media]
Holy crap. Just... DAMN
Seriously. That thing is interpreting speech perfectly as soon as it hears it. Then it responds perfectly, faster than the champions of Jeopardy can hit the buttons. That's just incredible. I'm getting strong vibes of "Monolith" and "HAL" from this thing.
I'm afraid I can't do that Mr. Trebeck
Go Watson Go!
I don't understand what the AI is here. I'm assuming it knew those questions because it was given the data on its hard drive. Is it not just word searching for a person that fits the charactaristic?
Hope Watson won't burn all his money on getting RAM.
[QUOTE=melonmonkey;27398827]I don't understand what the AI is here. I'm assuming it knew those questions because it was given the data on its hard drive. Is it not just word searching for a person that fits the charactaristic?[/QUOTE]
Read the article. It's processing speech in real time to determine what it is being asked and figuring the answers out based on that.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;27398863]Hope Watson won't burn all his money on getting RAM.[/QUOTE]
don't worry, he was programmed with the ability to download more for free if he ever needed it
Fuck yeah, my dad works for IBM, was talking about this the other day.
[QUOTE=melonmonkey;27398827]I don't understand what the AI is here. I'm assuming it knew those questions because it was given the data on its hard drive. Is it not just word searching for a person that fits the charactaristic?[/QUOTE]
A practical application of natural language recognition. Not only that but it "understands" riddles and stuff like that too.
On a sort of related note, I've been in the studio audience for a BBC TV show, and the number of cameras and lights on the ceiling is scary. There's [I]hundreds[/I] of them all packed together above you.
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My dad also works for IBM and was also talking about it
The amazing part is the speech recognition, the computer would obviously win against humans on facts and shit
No way he beat Ken Jennings....no fucking way.
[editline]14th January 2011[/editline]
better vid:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE[/media]
[QUOTE=Fuhrer;27400137]No way he beat Ken Jennings....no fucking way.
[editline]14th January 2011[/editline]
better vid:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE[/media][/QUOTE]
Thanks, I'll replace the one in the OP.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;27399950]The amazing part is the speech recognition, the computer would obviously win against humans on facts and shit[/QUOTE]
Not really, it has to do a lot of thinking. It has to determine what the question is looking for (person, place, number, color etc), then it has to know where to find it, without a human's assistance.
It isn't the knowledge that is impressive, it's the AI that it takes to find the answer on its own.
I just remembered this winning image from a contest in Wired magazine. I think it's appropriate.
[img]http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp-content/images/17-11/found1_f.jpg[/img]
This is incredible. You can see it needs some work like filling in the blanks but it seems its getting there.
[QUOTE=Ratboy14;27403899]This is incredible. You can see it needs some work like filling in the blanks but it seems its getting there.[/QUOTE]
I didn't see it make even one mistake, it just wasn't always the first one to hit the button.
