IBM Watson: The Next Grand Challenge

[brad64van]

When is Watson getting his Law Degree ?  Automated Lawyer's LOL

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[CalumnMcAulay]

why does everyone assume computers will turn against us? it seriously gets on my nerves!

[Thehitech1one]

4:49 an IBMer has a mac!

[WandererOfWorlds90]

@Thehitech1one Apple used IBM and Motorola processors for many years. The 1984 commercial was just a commercial. Business is business.

[assassin801]

4:23 i lost the game, and so did you guys >=p

[mickeyluvr13]

This makes me want to work in the video department at IBM

[orientrat]

This makes me want to work at IBM

[pogiboooy]

Yay! no more outsourcing of call center agents to India or other 3rd world countries.... but still no work for you guys 'coz only one employee will be required - Watson.

[houstondodgeball]

@pogiboooy no call center jobs in the US either. Watson took your job Pogi (regardless of what your jobs is).

Employers salivate and you and I either own our own businesses or turn to crime.

[mikis78]

@houstondodgeball Im from Finland. We do have call center jobs, because Indians don't speak Finnish much. And Finnish is a tough language to master because it's so flexible and different, on sentence can mean so many things. But still, Indians are trying, call center business must be very lucrative for them.

Watson, on the other hand, would have no difficulties to take over call center tasks from us. Oh well, it's a shitty job anyway, waste of our brains mostly.

[houstondodgeball]

@mikis78 true. I have no intention of going back to call center work. 5 yrs was enough *shivers*

[pshgirl2014]

my grandfather is the man in the middle of the picture at :32!! i love you pop!! <3

[raazs35]

@pshgirl2014 wow are you serious. did he work in NASA

[pshgirl2014]

@raazs35 yes he worked with NASA when they were putting the computers in the space shuttle

[frvfilms]

IBM SOLD HITLER HARDWARE/"SOFTWARE" TO KEEP DATABASE OF KILLS

[TheRussoTuristo2]

I'm a software engineer myself and this is absolutely groundbreaking.

[GoGoggansGo]

Skynet is really happend quick get in the closet

[GoGoggansGo]

skynet is a really happening o shit

[mphello]

Does IBM make business machines any more?

[mphello]

Calculon to Watson: "Have you got an extra Go To 10 line?"

[seroyer2]

How do we move past the Silicon chip? That is the next great frontier in computing.

[kidgill2000]

@seroyer2 graphene probably

[foxsux6000]

@ozzytonygeezerbill linux applications just work on OS X with fink, and Linux isn't based on Unix.

from OS X to linux is a little harder but headless applications are quite easy to port to Linux, anything with GUI gets difficult but also isn't impossible (like going from Native-OS X to Windows)

and Linux isn't a unix or unix based, it's unix-like.

[ozzytonygeezerbill]

This is just about the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

[metraon]

The skynet joke is getting old.

[leerman22]

0:28 Space Computing Center, because it requires lots of space!

[carnin]

Kind of bad comparison between a big computer with 1 man and that is only 1 brain against an humongous computer compare to the brain.

[vonkruel]

@carnin that's why Watson is also a reminder of how awesome the brain is. It takes several massive fridge-sized computers to compete with the top-level humans EVEN IN A VERY LIMITED DOMAIN. At the same time, Watson is an impressive demonstration of how far language processing has come, though it's nowhere close to what we would call "true machine intelligence".

[elpresidio]

@carnin There seem to be disparate challenges between the two.

The challenge for the human is the expansiveness of his knowledge and ability to recall. This is Watson's and computers in general strength.

On the flip side the challenge of Watson and computers is the ability to understand questions in natural language. This is a human strength over computers.

[foxsux6000]

@herpaderphurrdurr all their software runs on OS X as OS X uses the exact same compilers as Linux does ;)

linux and OS X are more or less 100% code compatible.

[ozzytonygeezerbill]

@foxsux6000 Linux and Mac OS X are both built atop UNIX, they are not even close to 100% compatible. But they are a hell of a lot closer than anything is to windows.

[Vladimir0538]

Last night, i shot an elephant in my pajamas...(o.O')...that's a huge load.

Btw IBM = Skynet

[haxsawfire]

haha,

@ 4:29 on of the IBM guys is using a MacBook

[Steamboat12002]

SOMEBODY KILL IT

IBM = CYBERDYEN

[Dvich]

THIS

IS

AMAZING

Thank you IBM for your advancement of human kind! :)

[TheWildHaggis]

Cool.



[foxsux6000]

source code or it didn't happen.

[trulez]

A version of that software will some day replace every helpdesk worker in the world. In the future, when you phone in to get help with your problem, a warm but robotic voice (and most likely womans voice) will give you a solution in 3-6 seconds, and she doesn't care how much you yell at her.

[gcamiloc092]

hahahaha one of the IBM guys is using a Mac computer at 4:27

[KingJohn876]

@gcamiloc092 Lmfao...Hahahahaha Thats Is so True

[foxsux6000]

@gcamiloc092 IBM doesn't make laptops or regular pc's anymore, Apple is as much IBM as lenovo laptops (not at all) IBM internally promotes OS X use due to it's Unix like kernel (and allot of people at IBM hate Microsoft, OS/2 Warp guys are still there)

[herpaderphurrdurr]

@foxsux6000 If anything, IBM supports Linux - You know, since they are one of the biggest contributers to the Linux kernel and stuff. There is no reason whatsoever they should support Apple, really. The software they make doesn't run on OS X.

[groundzerobuild]

This is what IRANIAN scientist are developing.Actually some scientist escaped to united states and passed on the vital informations to Americans.

[Herbarius]

@groundzerobuild yeah sure... -.-

[KingJohn876]

@groundzerobuild Its Possable But I Think Its Bull Shit!

[JeweledBeast]

Answer: an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators.

Question: What is Watson?

[outlaw686]

@JeweledBeast Watson is not intellegent, it's just a supercomputer with complicated search algorithms that attempt to understand natural speech.

[JeweledBeast]

@outlaw686 Sure, you say that now, but if that answer comes up, and Watson gives that question, I won't be anywhere near.

[Winnman05]

Wow, just wow.

[TheCrocodilator]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[23GrandMasterK]

@TheCrocodilator lol, Ken Jennings must have read that!