artificial intelligence
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- ukit
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/2…
IBM's work with natural language processing supercomputers has developed to the point that they are planning to put one of the machines on Jeopardy this fall to compete with some of the games all time champions.
- ukit0
- Naygon0
The Watson Trivia Challenge
http://www.nytimes.com/interacti…
- prophet0
if the machine loses on jeopardy, will they pour hot acid over it for the crowd?
- sequoia0
I wonder how long it will be before it starts trolling QBN.
- ukit0
Q: In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra described the music of this rock legend as "deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac."
Watson: Who is Elvis Presley?
- prophet0
"this is ibmwopr3000, why have they banned me?"
- ukit0
- pumpaction0
say, it's a bit ahead of the filter search around here
- ukit0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat…
If NLP technologies like that became widely available, it could wreak havoc on Google's business. Imagine the ability to instantly generate massive amounts of content on any subject instantly.
- ukit0
- ukit0
Yeah, in that article it said IBM hopes to sell them for > a million each.
Although the same kind of stuff could have some potential on the consumer end of things already, like this company Apple bought recently.
- stewdio0
The term "artificial intelligence" is such a misnomer. It's definitely not intelligence. And the logic is definitely not artificial. (Human logic is artificial.) So what is this then? Just fancy punchcard work using microscopic transistors instead of paper and vacuum tubes? An "intelligent" machine would only speak in broken English, get some of the questions wrong, feel ashamed about it, and maybe crack some silly jokes at its own expense. I'm not sure what a good definition of intelligence would be; that could be applicable to both humans and computers. But symptoms of intelligence seem to be messiness, periods of deep confusion, inaccuracy, and contradiction. Just like "walking" is actually being in a constant state of nearly falling over. Yet we walk so well.