IBM AI 'Watson' defeats the two most successful players in Jeopardy.
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Wait...I don't get it, you guys are saying he knows linguistics but he gets the clues in text files?
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;28152122]Wait...I don't get it, you guys are saying he knows linguistics but he gets the clues in text files?[/QUOTE]
Yes. Unless you want to make this a test of the quality of it's text to speech translator?
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;28152153]Yes. Unless you want to make this a test of the quality of it's text to speech translator?[/QUOTE]
Reading text is a lot easier than listening and comprehending speech...
[QUOTE=Pepin;28152101]I understand the point you're making, but I don't really think it has anything to do with what I'm saying. I'm making the point that it's unfair to say that Watson beat human players when it had such an advantage in reaction time. The statement "Watson can play Jeopardy and answer the questions correctly in a very short amount of time" would be much more correct than "Watson can beat the top two Jeopardy players".[/QUOTE]
THe point is that it can more efficiently analyze and answer questions, fuck. How many times do I have to explain this shit?
Even for a computer
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;28152165]Reading text is a lot easier than listening and comprehending speech...[/QUOTE]
Not really.
The only difference is in one scenario he has to turn sound into text, then analyze it.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;28152212]Not really.
The only difference is in one scenario he has to turn sound into text, then analyze it.[/QUOTE]
I thought that was hard but I guess not
[editline]19th February 2011[/editline]
(for a computer)
Fucking computer totally cheated to find the daily doubles. There's no way you just stumble upon them one after the other. :colbert:
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;28152240]I thought that was hard but I guess not
[editline]19th February 2011[/editline]
(for a computer)[/QUOTE]
No computer ever before has ever understood language. For a computer to be able to read any sentence, break it down, evaluate what each word and topic means in relation to each other, then spew out the most relevant answer, and almost always be right, is very impressive, and it's so annoying people here don't realize how fucking great this is.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;28152445]No computer ever before has ever understood language. For a computer to be able to read any sentence, break it down, evaluate what each word and topic means in relation to each other, then spew out the most relevant answer, and almost always be right, is very impressive, and it's so annoying people here don't realize how fucking great this is.[/QUOTE]
Soo...it isn't just using keywords?
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;28152576]Soo...it isn't just using keywords?[/QUOTE]
No, it's a linguistics analyzer. What's so hard to get about that? It does what we do. It breaks the connections of words down and can understand it based on that.
[QUOTE=Pepin;28152101]I understand the point you're making, but I don't really think it has anything to do with what I'm saying. I'm making the point that it's unfair to say that Watson beat human players when it had such an advantage in reaction time. The statement "Watson can play Jeopardy and answer the questions correctly in a very short amount of time" would be much more correct than "Watson can beat the top two Jeopardy players".[/QUOTE]
Watson mechanically pressed the button, they show it at the start. So there is going to be a delay in it's reaction
Anyone else find it disturbing that watson is shaped like the monolith?
Now they need to put Watson up against Keil Dullea.
[QUOTE=Sivics;28155132]Watson mechanically pressed the button, they show it at the start. So there is going to be a delay in it's reaction[/QUOTE]
There's also a delay associated with the fact that it's querying 15TB of data
Nice, I wanna meet him.
[QUOTE=Dustinm16;28161925]Nice, I wanna meet him.[/QUOTE]
Considering the amount of refrigeration he needs, I'd think he'd be [i]cold.[/i]
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Didn't it crash a couple of times when they were filming?
IIRC There's also an additional programmed delay to account for the time it takes the human players to read and process the text of the question.
[QUOTE=Pepin;28152101]I understand the point you're making, but I don't really think it has anything to do with what I'm saying. I'm making the point that it's unfair to say that Watson beat human players when it had such an advantage in reaction time. The statement "Watson can play Jeopardy and answer the questions correctly in a very short amount of time" would be much more correct than "Watson can beat the top two Jeopardy players".[/QUOTE]
I think he has a delay and it takes him a little while to make sure his answer is right.
There's a few time he was thinking the correct answers over his "guess" bias and he still didn't get a chance to beat the humans to buzzing in.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28161818]There's also a delay associated with the fact that it's querying 15TB of data[/QUOTE]
I do all that and more with my brain
in a second
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My version:
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v:v:v
well this is impressive yet expected, I mean jeopardy is a game about trivia, and what could possibly be better at a game about random information than a computer?
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;28193343]well this is impressive yet expected, I mean jeopardy is a game about trivia, and what could possibly be better at a game about random information than a computer?[/QUOTE]
Yay, yet another person without a fucking clue what Watson is.
yes the computer can understand questions, it's a great advancement for computers everywhere, now it is a computer with part of the developmental level of a 4 year old with the trivial capabilities of a computer.
Its very impressive but I'm tired of people saying things like "oh this means computers are smarter than people now".
Read: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software[/url])
Watch: [url]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html[/url]
Watson does not have all of the question/answer combinations stored to memory, nor does he search the internet.
Watson's job is to decipher language, which is incredibly hard for a purely logical device to do. Why else can you get strange results for searches, or why all of these 'chat bots' reply in a very predictable pattern?
[quote]Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk"]hard disk[/URL] storage,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligence_software%29#cite_note-contentpages-7"][8][/URL] including the full text of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia"]Wikipedia[/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligence_software%29#cite_note-atlantic20110217-8"][9][/URL] [/quote]
even though he may not know every single thing there is to know I doubt either of those people had every article in all of Wikipedia memorized. plus its reaction time is quicker. I'm not saying this isn't a great leap forward for computers I'm just annoyed with all the people constantly obsessing over how machines will be better and we should plug our minds into them and that sort of thing.
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligence_software%29#cite_note-atlantic20110217-8"][/URL]
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;28193471]yes the computer can understand questions, it's a great advancement for computers everywhere, now it is a computer with part of the developmental level of a 4 year old with the trivial capabilities of a computer.
Its very impressive but I'm tired of people saying things like "oh this means computers are smarter than people now".[/QUOTE]
Please show me where I said that?
I didn't. But it's not just a "trivia machine" like you trivalize it to be. Its a fucking LINGUISTICS ANALYZER.
[editline]21st February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=SM0K3 B4N4N4;28193731]even though he may not know every single thing there is to know I doubt either of those people had every article in all of Wikipedia memorized. plus its reaction time is quicker. I'm not saying this isn't a great leap forward for computers I'm just annoyed with all the people constantly obsessing over how machines will be better and we should plug our minds into them and that sort of thing.
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligence_software%29#cite_note-atlantic20110217-8"][/URL][/QUOTE]
People want to "plug their brains into computers" as you put it, because that's part of the transhumanism desire. To ascend beyond just human. It's their opinion. And it's all conjecture by both sides, however, [b]if we ever get to the point where we can do that kind of shit, do you really think living past 100 is going to be an issue? No. The technology will cause a zeitgeist and change what "morals" we have now and things will be different. To assume that our paradigm now, is one that will stay? That's asinine.[/b]
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