Watson the Computer on Jeopardy

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Can anyone beat it? :shock:
 
I doubt the computer will be beat, but if there is a question that cannot be answered using google or a computation, the two champs stand a chance.
 
For those of you who know Jeopardy well, you will understand that being able to come up with right answers involves integrating hard knowledge (stuff you learn) with abstract- articulating into what really is the correct answer. IBM (I believe who it was) challenged themselves to innovate a computer that could be capable of such. When we see robots and stuff on TV or fiction situations- do they not take every bit of information as literal without emotion or knowing that many times words are bent into many different meanings through human culture? In a way to guage their success IBM use the Jeopardy program game against to former champions.

Im not sure if I feel happy about the apparent progress of computers or a little scared.
 
hohDougRN said:
For those of you who know Jeopardy well, you will understand that being able to come up with right answers involves integrating hard knowledge (stuff you learn) with abstract- articulating into what really is the correct answer. IBM (I believe who it was) challenged themselves to innovate a computer that could be capable of such. When we see robots and stuff on TV or fiction situations- do they not take every bit of information as literal without emotion or knowing that many times words are bent into many different meanings through human culture? In a way to guage their success IBM use the Jeopardy program game against to former champions.

Im not sure if I feel happy about the apparent progress of computers or a little scared.
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I am thinking in another 50 or 75 years we'll be like 'The Jetsons'. Remember Dorothy the robot housekeeper? I believe it's possible.
 
hohDougRN said:
For those of you who know Jeopardy well, you will understand that being able to come up with right answers involves integrating hard knowledge (stuff you learn) with abstract- articulating into what really is the correct answer. IBM (I believe who it was) challenged themselves to innovate a computer that could be capable of such. When we see robots and stuff on TV or fiction situations- do they not take every bit of information as literal without emotion or knowing that many times words are bent into many different meanings through human culture? In a way to guage their success IBM use the Jeopardy program game against to former champions.

Im not sure if I feel happy about the apparent progress of computers or a little scared.
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Dixie said:
I am thinking in another 50 or 75 years we'll be like 'The Jetsons'. Remember Dorothy the robot housekeeper? I believe it's possible.
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Hmmm. For some reason I keep thinking that a robot of artificial intelligence, from the moment it becomes self-aware and has all the knowledge of the human race and its history, surely must feel compelled to become our servant.
Yeah, riiiight.
 
Beowulf said:
Hmmm. For some reason I keep thinking that a robot of artificial intelligence, from the moment it becomes self-aware and has all the knowledge of the human race and its history, surely must feel compelled to become our servant.
Yeah, riiiight.
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You can program it to have a servant personality. However it's also a good way to take over the world. Some dud hacks the robot database and reprograms it to become his army for global domination. :devil:
 
Dixie said:
You can program it to have a servant personality. However it's also a good way to take over the world. Some dud hacks the robot database and reprograms it to become his army for global domination. :devil:
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Artificial robots with self-awareness can program themselves any way they darn please, thank you. :lol:
 
Beowulf said:
Artificial robots with self-awareness can program themselves any way they darn please, thank you. :lol:
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Maybe program them with limited self-awareness? You know a computer is only as smart as what a person or a group of people program into it. Enough self-awareness that they can respond to their environment, but not so much that they feel they are 'better' than the human race and must take over.
 
Dixie said:
Maybe program them with limited self-awareness? You know a computer is only as smart as what a person or a group of people program into it. Enough self-awareness that they can respond to their environment, but not so much that they feel they are 'better' than the human race and must take over.
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Is that possible? or is that a silly question? You most likely know more about this than I do. I haven't done any research about AI but the last article I read about it a couple years ago made me nervous. :lol:
 
Beowulf said:
Is that possible? or is that a silly question? You most likely know more about this than I do. I haven't done any research about AI but the last article I read about it a couple years ago made me nervous. :lol:
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Didn't say I knew everything, just saying if IBM can program a computer like Watson, then in the future it might be possible to program a computer so that it responds just as Dorothy does in 'The Jetsons', but at the same time program so that it doesn't feel the need to take over the human race. Basically you're giving it the personality of a subordinate or timid person. Haven't the Japanese already come up with a similar type of robot that can be used as a servant known as Asimov, I believe? I could be wrong on the Asimov though.
 
hohDougRN said:
For those of you who know Jeopardy well, you will understand that being able to come up with right answers involves integrating hard knowledge (stuff you learn) with abstract- articulating into what really is the correct answer. IBM (I believe who it was) challenged themselves to innovate a computer that could be capable of such. When we see robots and stuff on TV or fiction situations- do they not take every bit of information as literal without emotion or knowing that many times words are bent into many different meanings through human culture? In a way to guage their success IBM use the Jeopardy program game against to former champions.

Im not sure if I feel happy about the apparent progress of computers or a little scared.
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I know many people that cannot integrate the two. I have my doubts that a machine can.:giggle:
 
Beowulf said:
Artificial robots with self-awareness can program themselves any way they darn please, thank you. :lol:
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Problem is, self awareness is a human trait that cannot be reproduced mechanically. And all knowing is a condition that cannot even be achieved through humans, much less machines dependent upon human knowledge.:lol:
 
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