I lost on Jeopardy!

hismikeness · February 15, 2011, 09:01:28 PM

Suck it Watson!

Oh wait, what that IBM computer is doing, really, when you think about it is nothing short of spectacular. I mean, after one day, it's not winning against arguably the two best Jeopardy! contestants ever based on win streak and overall prize money, but I guarantee it's doing better than I could against them. Artificial Intelligence is still very much in its infancy, but it sure seems to be coming along nicely. This is exciting to me!

There were some gaffs that I'm sure will be fixed in Watson 2.0...

Quote from: "PCMag"One of two of the all-time Jeopardy! champions pitted against the super-machine, Ken Jennings, answered a question incorrectly with, "What is 1920s." Watson repeated the same answer. Steve Camepa, IBM's general manager of global media and the entertainment industry explained that "Watson only takes his input from the question board so the fact that somebody else gave the same answer doesn't factor into what Watson says. He can't hear what the other players are saying, but maybe that's a feature we can add in the future."

Here's the full article. Pretty cool stuff. By the way, Watson will be competing for three days on Jeopardy!, continuing February 15 and 16.

McQ · February 15, 2011, 10:35:29 PM

Yeah, this is very interesting and should be great for getting people talking about AI and for getting people to think about the future of all machine intelligence. Exciting stuff; thanks for sharing!

Tanker · February 15, 2011, 11:21:33 PM

I saw a show on NOVA about that computer, pretty interesting stuff. The biggest disadvatage it has against humans is no intuition. It has algorithms for picking the best match with the absolutly huge amounts of data it contains but it can't tell when it's "best guess" would be obviously wrong or off topic to a human asked the same question. Really really cool stuff though.

Sophus · February 16, 2011, 03:00:21 AM

Yeah, well, apparently it's not super enough to know that Toronto is not a US city.

joeactor · February 16, 2011, 04:11:17 AM

Quote from: "Sophus"Yeah, well, apparently it's not super enough to know that Toronto is not a US city.

Some of the "easy" ones for us trip it up. Probably language issues.

... still taking the other two champions to the cleaners!

LegendarySandwich · February 16, 2011, 04:42:40 AM

I'm waiting for the day when computers can emulate and rival human brains (not in terms of raw computing power, as computers obviously already best us meatbags in that category, but in things like intuition and emotion).

hismikeness · February 16, 2011, 04:55:00 AM

Quote from: "joeactor"... still taking the other two champions to the cleaners!

And if a fire broke out in the studio, most likely the champs just walk away, but the computer melts. Bwahahahahah

karadan · February 16, 2011, 12:11:52 PM

Did you guys check the specs of Watson? Man, that is a seriously big machine.

[youtube:3gddhu57]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr7IxQeXr7g[/youtube:3gddhu57]

joeactor · February 17, 2011, 03:07:21 PM

"Watson is the size of 10 refrigerators, and is composed of 2,880 CPUs operating at 80 teraflops & 15 terabytes of RAM. It can scan 2 million pages in 3 seconds."

... and pretty amazing to watch.

I for one welcome...

karadan · February 17, 2011, 03:15:45 PM

Quote from: "joeactor""Watson is the size of 10 refrigerators, and is composed of 2,880 CPUs operating at 80 teraflops & 15 terabytes of RAM. It can scan 2 million pages in 3 seconds."

... and pretty amazing to watch.

I for one welcome...

15TB RAM!!!!...

That's just mental.

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