IBM - Watson
Anyone else interested in IBM's latest creation? It tied last night on Jeopardy. I'm hoping they will release some of their research on the machine learning and natural language processing algos they used.
It must be said, i've seen some articles on it recently. But given the time it takes to answer a question I'm not really interested in it year.
That being said, my interests tend to lie more in the implementation of algorithms to solve problems (swarm, genetic etc). Still it's interesting to see what comes out of the IBM research department.
That being said, my interests tend to lie more in the implementation of algorithms to solve problems (swarm, genetic etc). Still it's interesting to see what comes out of the IBM research department.
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| But given the time it takes to answer a question I'm not really interested in it year. |
Are you saying the response time is too long? Yeah it's the implementation I'm interested in.
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Now THAT's an interesting project! Hopefully, the next version will work a bit faster (add more parallel processing power?).
I wonder if IBM will end up becoming something like Bell Labs used to be...
-Albatross
Now THAT's an interesting project! Hopefully, the next version will work a bit faster (add more parallel processing power?).
I wonder if IBM will end up becoming something like Bell Labs used to be...
-Albatross
I think the response time is too long at this point. But their methods I think are interesting. It'd be nice to see some academic papers on how they've designed it's software.
Well they'd better not take too long releasing those papers. Artificial intelligence has always been something I've been interested in keeping track of ever since I watched "The Matrix". :)
If anyone's interested: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
-Albatross
If anyone's interested: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
-Albatross
Artificial intelligence? Pah! I want artificial stupidity. I want to be able to ask a computer what time the train is, and then when the train doesn't turn up, it'll say "Oh, sorry, I was holding the timetable upside down".
That's actually quite easy. Just generate a random number and print an excuse from a library full of pre-formulated templates when e.what() is equal to
-Albatross
"Train did not show up on time. Owner is pissed.". :)-Albatross
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@Moschops
My final year university project might be exactly what you're looking for...once it's finished, and sucks, i'll send it to you
My final year university project might be exactly what you're looking for...once it's finished, and sucks, i'll send it to you
I want proper artificial stupidity, not just faking it with random numbers :)
For the train times, it should independently work out where we are, find out where the closest station is, maybe ask me where I actually want to go to, and only then screw it all up by holding the train timetable upside down/reading the line for Sunday instead of weekdays/get the destination and source station mixed up.
About as stupid as a ten year-old human would do it. :)
It should also be able to work out how to cook a frozen pizza by independently reading the box and then put the pizza into the oven still on the polystyrene base. Real, proper (artificial) stupidity :p That'd be way harder than artificial intelligence.
For the train times, it should independently work out where we are, find out where the closest station is, maybe ask me where I actually want to go to, and only then screw it all up by holding the train timetable upside down/reading the line for Sunday instead of weekdays/get the destination and source station mixed up.
About as stupid as a ten year-old human would do it. :)
It should also be able to work out how to cook a frozen pizza by independently reading the box and then put the pizza into the oven still on the polystyrene base. Real, proper (artificial) stupidity :p That'd be way harder than artificial intelligence.
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| It should also be able to work out how to cook a frozen pizza by independently reading the box and then put the pizza into the oven still on the polystyrene base. Real, proper (artificial) stupidity :p That'd be way harder than artificial intelligence. |
I've long dreamed of technology to allow downloading real objects. The way I envision it is having a machine that reads instructions from a file (the file is the part you download) that tell it how to assemble the object from a list of ingredients. This needs to happen. I fully expect in ten years to be able to download pizza.
So Watson was victorious in the end by around $50,000. First Hal, now Watson... there will definitely be some interesting applications for this technology ranging from Business Intelligence to further development of expert systems.
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Anyone have a link to the episodes online? I'm having a serious case of Google Phail today...
You can start here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLdkJpAtt1I
The other parts should be on the right as well.
The other parts should be on the right as well.
I was rooting for Watson and I'm glad it won. I like what Ken J. wrote in his final answer. Pretty funny.
| Artificial intelligence? Pah! I want artificial stupidity. I want to be able to ask a computer what time the train is, and then when the train doesn't turn up, it'll say "Oh, sorry, I was holding the timetable upside down". |
Ha ha ha ha...
and here I was thinking that we had too much stupidity... "goin round..."
| Watson crushed the humans this round. Resistance is futile! |
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Borg_Collective
I want some headphones...
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