I don't know what IBM is thinking but they're creeping me out. They used a supercomputer as a contestant on a famous game show just to prove a point and win money for charity? Tell me this isn't "2001: A Space Odyssey" happening in real life.
IBM Supercomputer Wins Jeopardy!
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I need to call Wattson next time I'm writing an essay. 
Well, the computer isn't perfect, it missed some of the easiest questions that involved some thinking but got the most obscure purely fact questions correct.
For those of people who noticed how they said that IBM hoped that computers like Watson would "revolutionize the intelligence gathering industry" I pray this won't turn into the movie Eagle Eye...
I mean how Watson soundly beat the two best Jepoardy players ever, shows all the hard work that IBM did to create Watson and how it paid off big time.
I don't, God forbid what's next? SkyNet from James Cameron's Terminator franchise? This is just a prime example of why we can't allow Robots and Machines to enslave Mankind.
Computers are only programmed to what we command them to. So, unless someone goes psycho and tells computers to attack us, or they do eventually some self-sufficient (able to make their own decisions), we're safe...hopefully.
I'm afraid we won't see walking robots that kill and blow up stuff while being able to think for themselves in our lifetime. Did you see all of the equipment that was required for Watson to run? That's what you can expect smart AI robots to be like in our lifetime.
I watched some parts of the episode and found it rather interesting. Its pretty cool that IBM came up with a supercomputer and beat two other Jeopardy contestants.
Technology is improving everyday....
Technology is improving everyday....
Sweet Dawn Berlitz said:
That's why we can't fully trust computers. Plus with what TheDarkLucario mentioned we shouldn't have anything to worry about at least for now anyways.
Ice Arceus said:
That may be true however there should be a limit to how much we improve on it. Eventually it will reach a point in advancement that's enough to destroy us, it's like something out of a science fiction novel or film coming to life.
The first real world application for Wattson:
Working with doctors at Columbia as a medical encyclopedia which talks. Also, they are going to do some work with its voice technology.
Working with doctors at Columbia as a medical encyclopedia which talks. Also, they are going to do some work with its voice technology.
I have the episode from Jeopardy saved to my DVR, this is great! I think it was a week before he aired on Jeopardy, if anyone watches NOVA on PBS (the new NOVA ScienceNow branch-off), they did a show on the human brain, including stuff on emerging technologies that can both manipulate and actual human brain for medical purposes (though it could most definitely be used for much worse things…), and how human brain function can be mimicked in artificial intelligence. For the latter they showed Watson when he (or it, I don't know ) was finishing development at IBM, and the test rounds they did with him for Jeopardy. Some of the mistakes the computer makes are hysterical, but I guess with over a million bucks he gets the last laugh – wonder what he's gonna get with it, maybe a new processor, haha . Well, then again he's already got one or more of the best in the world.
Edit: And I have to say I'm almost as impressed with the clarity of the artificial voice as with his database-searching powers, it almost sounds like he's… self-aware… *gulps*.
) was finishing development at IBM, and the test rounds they did with him for Jeopardy. Some of the mistakes the computer makes are hysterical, but I guess with over a million bucks he gets the last laugh – wonder what he's gonna get with it, maybe a new processor, haha . Well, then again he's already got one or more of the best in the world.Edit: And I have to say I'm almost as impressed with the clarity of the artificial voice as with his database-searching powers, it almost sounds like he's… self-aware… *gulps*
.Guys, there is NO way computers could have an intelligent, adapting, and mobile AI EVER going to happen any time soon. Hasn't anyone heard that one theory (can't remember the name) saying silicon transistors can only get so small.
It is technically possible to replicate the human brain and nervous system with technology as it all boils down to electric impulses, but it's pretty unfeasible.
Well, I don't think we can say that for sure (although I do believe it to be true). We haven't mapped much of the human brain, and also, even if we were to recreate the entire nervous system of a human inorganically, there would still have to be a way to form links between brain cells in the form of memories, which would be very difficult. When you think about it, a replication of the human brain, if it is possible at all, will come very far in the future. After all, we don't even have a perfect replication of a human eye yet.Hyperbeem said: