http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3IryWr4c8
http://www.internetb...computer/56872/
Pretty incredible.
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Posted 21 February 2011 - 04:43 AM
No, it isn't. I think it was a great achievement by humanity, building a machine that can outplay human Jeopardy! experts. Watson is certainly not a human-level general intelligence, and no one is claiming that it is. It is, however, an amazing collection of hardware and software. What we should be doing is projecting this device about ten years into the future. Instead of a room full of hardware, how large (and expensive) a computer will it need? Certainly smaller and cheaper. Handheld? I couldn't say. With a full decade of software development implementing the latest in knowledge representation, where might it go? Better and smarter is all I can say. Superhuman? Well, it's already superhuman in the Jeopardy! domain. Expect to see a widening of its domain. I look forward to the day when the successors of Watson read the entirety of the scientific literature, start recommending what experiments to do next, and making the connections that we are presently missing. I think a scenario like that is inevitable, and I expect to see it inside of 20 years.Well, Goertzel also says, "But even so, it was pretty bloody cool to see it up there on stage, defeating humans in a battle of wits created purely by humans for humans — playing by the human rules and winning."
We shouldn't overhype the achievement, but let's now downplay it either. This isn't something that happens every day.
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Posted 21 February 2011 - 02:27 PM
I look forward to the day when the successors of Watson read the entirety of the scientific literature, start recommending what experiments to do next...
I think a scenario like that is inevitable, and I expect to see it inside of 20 years.
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 07:24 AM
p.s. - ok, one more time - how the hell is it possible to embedd youtube?? Used to be video...url...video.. doesn't work.
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Posted 12 September 2011 - 10:00 PM
IBM didn’t develop a supercomputer capable of winning at Jeopardy just to pull in game show money. The company announced a deal this morning with health insurance giant WellPoint to use the Watson supercomputer to parse health care information.
It’s the first commercial application for Watson, the computer most famous for taking on Jeopardy champions and whipping them at their own game.
IBM and WellPoint have agreed to use Watson to analyze healthcare data for the insurance company’s customers to help doctors and nurses diagnose and treat conditions patients could have.
"There are breathtaking advances in medical science and clinical knowledge, however; this clinical information is not always used in the care of patients. Imagine having the ability to take in all the information around a patient's medical care -- symptoms, findings, patient interviews and diagnostic studies. Then, imagine using Watson analytic capabilities to consider all of the prior cases, the state-of-the-art clinical knowledge in the medical literature and clinical best practices to help a physician advance a diagnosis and guide a course of treatment," said Dr. Sam Nussbaum, WellPoint's Chief Medical Officer, in a release. "We believe this will be an invaluable resource for our partnering physicians and will dramatically enhance the quality and effectiveness of medical care they deliver to our members."
The companies did not say how much WellPoint would pay for access to Watson’s computing power. But it’s a fair bet the largest publicly-traded health insurer is forking over more than the $1 million the computer won on Jeopardy.
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Posted 27 November 2011 - 12:11 AM
IIRC, I read somewhere that it was actually not able to beat human's peak buzz speed reaction, and it won despite that.It is pretty impressive, but it seemed like most of it's success came from it's ability to buzz in much faster than humans (Jennings especially seemed little frustrated).
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