One day I'll actually be able to find what I need on Google.
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It's funny because in like 30 years, a mobile phone or compatible device will have more computing power than all those put together and we will all have a personal Watson.
The beggining of the HAL series.
kinda cool to know that the first moon thingy which was sent up, had less electronics in it than a damn toy these days, (those who say hello and shitnitz... obviously)
Curiosity never stops, scientists will do their stuff.. regardless of the consequences... (Half-Life anyone!?)
Worst things can be done starting with the best intentions.
[QUOTE=Revelator;26747720]Worst things can be done starting with the best intentions.[/QUOTE]
Yea but bad things happened because of retarded intentions if you look at history
Here is another video from the watson team, of how difficult it is to understand natural language for computers generally:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_429UIzN1JM&feature=relmfu[/media]
Wow. Usually you can't get me to sit through a 20 minute long youtube video, but that was really interesting. It's insane what we can do now with technology
Somebody stop them before they activate Skynet!
[QUOTE=TCB;26738274]In Soviet Russia, 20Q answers to you![/QUOTE]
In Soviet Russia, you'd be in a gulag for browsing a Capitalist website.
Technology is a wonderful thing. Fuck those who says otherwise.
Will be interesting to see if it fails or beats everybody. Would be unfortunate if a bug is what brings it down. At least it doesn't feel nervous :v:
IBM are such incredible pioneers. Any other company would say, "The future is unrealistic! People will do just fine rephrasing their search terms."
IBM goes the next step and says people should phrase their questions however they want and include puns and all this /REALLY/ hard to compute shit and their machine does it anyways.
Watson is like Wolfram Alpha, but with common sense.
[QUOTE=Cintroval;26757128]IBM are such incredible pioneers. Any other company would say, "The future is unrealistic! People will do just fine rephrasing their search terms."
IBM goes the next step and says people should phrase their questions however they want and include puns and all this /REALLY/ hard to compute shit and their machine does it anyways.
Watson is like Wolfram Alpha, but with common sense.[/QUOTE]
Well I wouldn't be as optimistic, IBM isn't really the brand name it once was, so they need a new approach if they want to stay competitive, which is ultimately what they are doing with Watson. But that doesn't stop me from being facinated with this technology
I'm not even gonna bother watching these videos
I don't get why they keep pushing the computer vs kasparov thing, they only won by cheating.
[QUOTE=BmB;26778215]I don't get why they keep pushing the computer vs kasparov thing, they only won by cheating.[/QUOTE]
Which isn't exactly possible with this thing. Can't really cheat at Jeopardy.
Person: "Watson, how do magnets work?"
Watson: "Fuck."
Host: "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?"
Watson: "I do not know yet, come back in seven and a half million years."
Now give it complete access to the internet.
Q: "What is it like to love? To laugh? To cry? To win a marathon? To listen to rock music? To lose a loved one? What is it like to [i]feel[/i]?"
A: "Where is Lake Titicaca?"
[QUOTE=ruarai;26787744]Hoster: "No, watson!"
Watson: "What is no?"
That cracked me up[/QUOTE]
Actually it didn't ask what is no, it said: "What is milk?"
[QUOTE=Beafman;26778479]Which isn't exactly possible with this thing. Can't really cheat at Jeopardy.[/QUOTE]
They didn't cheat at the rules, they helped the computer, it didn't beat kasparov, the engineers did.
Watson is going to lead to machine revolution.
[QUOTE=claythepro;26750474]Technology is a wonderful thing. Fuck those who says otherwise.[/QUOTE]
Not always
"Technology" can range from desktop PCs to high yield nuclear weapons
It's not always beneficial, but obviously it is in this case :v:
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