VIDEO: IBM's Supercomputer to go on Jeopardy!
Way back in April of 2009, IBM announced plans to build a question answering (QA) computing system with the ability to understand complex questions and answer them with enough precision to compete against humans on Jeopardy!
Last year, Dr. David Ferrucci, leader of the IBM Watson project team, said the system named Watson would have to spend a lot of time studying before it was deemed ready to compete.
"The system would have 'read' many, many natural language texts -- books, reference materials, all kinds of information -- and tried to analyze and organize that information in such a way that it can see the meaning of the question and try to figure out what are likely answers," Ferrucci said.
Though the New York Times reports that Watson will not be appearing on Jeopardy! until this fall, we now have a video of Watson in action. Watch below to see what happens when Watson succeeds, and when he fails.
Read more here.
*Image via The New York Times
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Is that a Steve Reich composition half-way through this video?
Skynet is about to go active >.>
the smarter we make computers the more we are eventually going to regret it.
erm.. google?
erm.. google?
Don't judge a piece of technology only by its use. Developing concepts and ideas just as a thought experiment, to investigate what's possible, has lead to a vast amount of new inventions and understandings, in fields as diverse as literature and science.
Sometimes, something completely useless lays the cornerstone for things that will rule their field a few years later.
The fact that they were able to make an algorithm to answer questions, even if he answers correctly only 50% of the time, is amazing.
Looks impressive at first but thinking more about it makes me feel unsettled. What if one day it tries to correct us?