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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2011, 06:58:30 pm »
The IBM ads actually make sense, kinda. There's a lot of potential for Watsons in the real world.

But if this goes too well, someday kids'll just ask their computers to do their homework for them x.x

That's probably what they said of graphing calculators, though ;D
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2011, 07:17:29 pm »
just watch watson try to kill sarah conner
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2011, 08:24:49 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on February 16, 2011, 06:58:30 pm
But if this goes too well, someday kids'll just ask their computers to do their homework for them x.x

That's probably what they said of graphing calculators, though ;D

-You mean they don't do that already? No wonder why I never got my homework done! :P
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2011, 09:17:34 pm »
I just finished watching the last episode of this series of games, and it was great :) I liked how they show the various possible answers, and Watson's certainty for each.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #19 on: February 17, 2011, 03:17:48 am »
This is great. I haven't watched all parts but I will, later.
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2011, 09:25:07 pm »
Watson officially pawns everyone. But it still can't accomplish the basic task of human communication, it can only answer questions based on its matches through its algorithms
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Re: Historical Event - IBM Computer "Watson" plays Jeopardy
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2011, 11:27:43 am »
Quote from: holmes221b on February 15, 2011, 09:07:35 pm
They must be keeping "Holmes" in reserve for when they manage to successfully emulate a Vulcan...
I'm gonna be THAT GUY and point out Watson was named after some IBM dude, not the Sherlock Holmes character.

Quote from: PeonHero on February 19, 2011, 09:25:07 pm
Watson officially pawns everyone. But it still can't accomplish the basic task of human communication, it can only answer questions based on its matches through its algorithms
But that's all we're ever going to get out of a computer, isn't it? Or at least until we figure out what sort of algorithms our own brains use :P
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