This may be funny, however it was IBM that designed the Hollerith machine (first computer) to assist the Nazis in the totallisation of the european Jewry for the industrialized genocide of 11 million Jews in WW2. Look it up. IBM are scum, you should all be very concerned.They are guilty of assisting genocide.
@derrenmac That was done by different people; all the people that participated in that are most likely dead now. That's like saying Germany is bad because that's where Hitler came from!
@derrenmac How so? Just because one company had intention x at a certain date doesn't mean that nearly a century later, they'll have the same intent. I don't care if you disagree, so I'll just leave it at that and not participate in an attempted argument.
Watson should have at least 215 milliseconds delay before he can send a signal to answer a question. Humans have naturally slower reaction times vs Computers/Watson in clicking the buzzer.
I can already see it... In the near future tech companies like Oracle, IBM, HP etc. all competing in Jeopardy with their AI representing them. Maybe we can also see open source solutions competing.. XD
This new supercomputer is no doubt named after Thomas Watson, IBM's most celebrated president. He did a lot of business with Nazi Germany and sold them IBM technology; primarily IBM punch card machines. These punch card machines were used to categorize victims of the Holocaust -- so IBM can bare much responsibility for the Holocaust. IBM can hide from its past, but the fact still remains embeded in history forever.
> These punch card machines were used to categorize victims
> of the Holocaust -- so IBM can bare much responsibility for
> the Holocaust.
Companies are groups of people. I find it funny that it's fine to malign that organization of people.
But what if I were to point out that the slave trade was dominated by Jewish people? It is true - primarily because Jewish people were forced into the banking industry during Inquisitions.
@fuzzywzhe Perhaps you are a bigot if you limit the blame of the slave trade on the Jewish people. If you read history you will find that Egypt, Rome, Ottomans, Barbary pirates, Persians, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, the English, and colonial North America all had a hand in the slave trade over the couse of history. Furthermore, I find nothing 'funny' about slavery or genocide, no matter who is responsible.
@TheTobywankenobi "Perhaps you are a bigot if you limit the blame of the slave trade on the Jewish people."
See? I told you.
People always want an easy answer. Rarely do they look at the complicated history that produced the attitudes you see today. Look at the Israel/Palestinian conflict, it's about "religion" - except it's not and never has been.
@fuzzywzhe Do I have to give you another history lesson? The conflict between Israel and Palestine is all about religion. There is no strategic importance of Jerusalem or the land in which Israel resides; it is all based on religion, even Christians have fought over the desert lands for their faith during the first crusade. There is nothing there to fight over except religion.
@TheTobywankenobi "Do I have to give you another history lesson? The conflict between Israel and Palestine is all about religion."
I really don't have the time, nor inclination to explain to you the demographic realities that lie at the root of the conflict, because you'll simply ignore it anyhow. I won't bring up the murder of Count Bernadotte, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the 1/2 million Arab refuges in 1950, or any of that.
All you know about the conflict is simplified propaganda.
@fuzzywzhe If you're are refering to class conflict or racial difference then you have a point, but you are ignoring the perversion of religious beliefs that rally individuals to either side in the middle east. Furthermore, I checked out your youtube channel; based on what I saw, you are either an extremist without a cause or a conspiracy theorist. I will no longer justify your comments with a response, because I now think you are an anti-semite.
@TheTobywankenobi "If you're are refering to class conflict or racial difference then you have a point, but you are ignoring the perversion of religious beliefs"
It's about land and who is allowed to live on it. It's as simple as that.
If it was a religious conflict, the TINY Jewish population there in 1940 would have been simply all killed. If the Arabs were really aligned with Hitler in 1939, as is claimed today, why did the TINY Jewish population in the Arab world not die?
The moment artificial beings understand humans will be the day they will misunderstand humans. As humans we have flaws, flaws that artificial beings most likely will not understand. Good luck with that outcome.
wait a minute. if IBM is able to make a scripted system of decision making shown in 3:00. is it possible to that the human brain works similar to this in a mathematical term as well? I can see it now, a computer watching TV just next to me on my sofa, then it tells me to change the channel to something educational. lol.
lol because Watson was built to play Jeopardy and nothing more so if you ask "how is your day going Watson?" it would do 1 of 2 thing 1 go looking for a document containing the question i just asked and wont find anything and just crash or 2 generation a wrong ancer that sounds right to Watson like"the way the crow fly's Jim" for starters my name is not jim and you would expect a yes or no ancer at the lest and Watson still need a human to build the document for him
Way back in 1968 Stanley Kubrick's brilliant and prophetic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" showcased "HAL" the thinking computer. It was a somewhat sinister omen of things to come, anticipating a time when computers could literally "think" rather than simply memorize and apply data. Watson shows that we are now on the threshold of that happening. HAL developed a mind and an ego and assumed dominance over humans. Will Watson's "offspring" someday do the same? Don't be surprised if they do.
You know you've been spending too much time around your university's math department when a lot of that "stuff" on the whiteboard made some sort of sense.
It's not too hard to imagine, Watson 2.0 making his inaugural speech when elected as president of the free world.. Now I'll take human civilization for 400.
@arcadesj so what will all the people do in low wages sector when a computer can take their job? do you really believe that there will be many jobs left in the higher sectors? nah. more realistic is a real nice utopia with some nice police state backing up the govs. Obama would look just sexy in some Gadafi outfit...
To IBM: "don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed....the ability to successfully answer questions on jeopardy is insignificant...next to the power of the force"
@basscasey Watson said that Toronto was part of the United States NOT Canada in his Jeopardy debut. It is all linked to computer fraud of the estate of me DEAD. You see the computers were programmed by crooked attorneys to dissolve the United States. Obama! It was stated that way in a deposition in Arizona of the real mastermind of 911.Maybe the computer made a record of me dead in Toronto too not lol. The kicker was the "World Community" charity which benefits as a write for him. wtf. HRSiegal
I thought it was interesting how Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Star Trek's writers have captured well the way intelligent humans will treat intelligent machines in Star Trek, Star Wars, and A.I. They laugh at Watson's errors. even Alex Trebek said things about Watson on the show he'd never say about a contestant live on the air. not unlike how "droids" were treated in Star Wars and how some sentient machines (that would commit suicide) in one Star Trek TNG episode were treated by people.
It shouldn't, hawking's voice is based off of an old discontinued unit that vary few if any other people have. He has been offered newer units over the years but he feels that "it is my voice, why would I change it".
@Mavericks411991 No, you explain. You're the one making the claim. Just because we have a smart computer, that doesn't mean it's part of a conspiracy. You either prove it or you admit that you just want to have something to worry about.
okay, this Watson system can participate in jeopardy, now something cognitively harder, like conversation on any topic within database, with questions on level of Bill Maher or Jon Stewart .. :)
That kinda scares me. I've always said that any computer who I can text-chat with for an hour (no holds barred!) and still remain unsure whether it's a computer deserves, in my book, full legal citizenship, and public recognition as a sentient being. The idea that I may have to do that in my lifetime is simultaneously exciting and frightening.
It's a topic that I've studied a little and am fascinated by: you're right that the difference between chat-bots and real people is usually instantly obvious, so much so that I think the question of whether we could have a chat-bot indistinguishable to a human is almost philosophical.
Having said that, the history of Computer Science has been one of discovering surprising advances. I might need to be prepared for a "fully-concious" computer AI in my lifetime.
see, soon nobody will have to go to work or use money. the computer will design robots to farm and deliver food and to make manufactured goods for us. The only "real jobs" will be fixing and improving the automatons. Everyone else can go make art or learn or read or fuck all day or whatever. It will be all good. I will be one of the robot fixers :)
Would love to know what software Watson's using to speak. It sounds very natural but easy to understand, and it's English, so it can't be VOCALOID...?
@TheRainstorm97 @TheRainstorm97 I doubt it would be Vocaloid; the English version of Vocaloid had a think British accent and besides IBM has enough resources to create a new speech synthesizer themselves.
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.
LOL. IBM always takes the brute force computing power approach. Running hundreds of algorithms, then formulating an answer on the "belief" (biased probability) of which ones are most likely to be correct is not how people do this sort of thing. Of course, it's in IBMs best interest to promote the more computationally intensive approaches :) Nevertheless, Watson is quite a feat.
This is the kind of thing I want to see be done with computers, its doesn't just process and store information, it understands it to some degree. In the last 10 years most consumer grade computers have gotten faster and can hold more information, but maybe in another 10, they can understand the information people enter. I really hope things like Watson can be a real game changer for how people think about what computers can do.
i hope all their programmers watched terminator and made sure there is a "do not anything which might result into killing a living beeing"-directive... otherwise terminator wont be science fiction and more of a forecast
Let's get ready to rumble! IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions: IBM and and America’s Favorite Quiz show® Jeopardy! have announced that an IBM computing system named “Watson” will compete on Jeopardy! against the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition will air on February 14, 15 and 16, 2011, with two matches being played over three consecutive days.
@BruceArctor The information from my source told me that AI(Artificial Intelligence) is already weaponized in the area of nanotechnology militray weapons smartdust(try to Google Smartdust Active Laser Transmitter for UCLA online report) which capable to fly(mirco helicopter) to watch, to listen, and fire laser to the landed targets to suppress freedom of speech. Except my source can not provide solid proof, they are part of it, they call them self, men in grey or people in grey(Grey Goo).
@BruceArctor IBM guys could be PIGs(people in grey) underdoged by AI+nanotech remote weapons which directly controlled by organized crimes in global ruling power, maybe that is why Jeopardy put together with AI in this show. Or, IBM is part of organized crimes, and maybe that is why IBM nanotechnology research center in Swiss almost attacked by bomb plot in 2010, but then again, my soruce can not provide solid proof, you can take it like a story, a sad one though.
@BYTaipei You woke me up. Thanks. God bless Taiwan. In reality what I said was meant as a joke. You should really look up a DARPA program called SYNAPSE. Good luck with your conspiracy theories. The best for your country.
@BruceArctor Thanks for your infromation, after a quick look, I have a feeling I am going to know something important from your information about DARPA SyNapse Project which IBM funded to research and develop. BTW, the university published the online report of SALT(Smartdust Active Laser Transmitter) is UC Berkeley, not UCLA.
@ghostNE1 I think we will have one of those between 10 and 15 years, maybe in 20 years it will fit on our cellphone. A good chess program needs nothing more than a reasonably priced laptop to beat a world class player for several years now. Deep blue is only 13 years old.
Eventually we're going to have to ask ourselves why we need secretaries, marketeers, assistant managers, lawyers or even a CEO if a machine can even do these jobs as well... xD
@jou00jou Well, they could replace us too. The way Watson works is basically what we programmers do: a client has an idea in the form of natural language and we analyze that, chunk it into algorithms and translate into a language that can be compiled into a software program.
Personally I would prefer to be in charge of the information my an agent uses, I wouldn't trust public servers or clouds. Imagine what corporations would give to have your AI-buddy tell you what products to buy...
@jou00jou What makes you think that we can't someday describe to a computer a problem or idea for a program and it makes the program/solution for you? We are all expendable, eventually the intelligence and creativity of the computer will exceeds ours, it's inevitable.
the computer's voice sounds eerily like Stephen Hawking's.....gasp --- I think they've sealed the good Dr in a box and are forcing him to answer questions and pretending it's a computer! IBM, I have figured out your fiendishly evil plan -- for the love of God, let Dr Hawking out of the "Watson" box!
fantastic work and the pat on the back to the developers at IBM Research labs!! Is it any coincidence that the computer is called 'Watson' - one of the original presidents of the Company, Thomas John Watson :D
Make a chick
emmanuelmccoy2 5 months ago
Can't wait to see the walking version of Watson, a.k.a. Robocop
MrElectrifyer 5 months ago
Anything stopping Watson from taking law and passing the Bar exam ??
Automated Lawyer that instantly knows all law.. no need to go "research" past cases
Basically if it's a winnable case ... Watson would win LOL
brad64van 6 months ago
This may be funny, however it was IBM that designed the Hollerith machine (first computer) to assist the Nazis in the totallisation of the european Jewry for the industrialized genocide of 11 million Jews in WW2. Look it up. IBM are scum, you should all be very concerned.They are guilty of assisting genocide.
derrenmac 9 months ago
@derrenmac That was done by different people; all the people that participated in that are most likely dead now. That's like saying Germany is bad because that's where Hitler came from!
EnterARandomNameHere 8 months ago
@EnterARandomNameHere , oh my God, with that comment I can see you are an ignorant halfwit. Wake up...
derrenmac 8 months ago
@derrenmac How so? Just because one company had intention x at a certain date doesn't mean that nearly a century later, they'll have the same intent. I don't care if you disagree, so I'll just leave it at that and not participate in an attempted argument.
EnterARandomNameHere 8 months ago
Watson should have at least 215 milliseconds delay before he can send a signal to answer a question. Humans have naturally slower reaction times vs Computers/Watson in clicking the buzzer.
mytube00x01 9 months ago
I can already see it... In the near future tech companies like Oracle, IBM, HP etc. all competing in Jeopardy with their AI representing them. Maybe we can also see open source solutions competing.. XD
mytube00x01 9 months ago
Will awtson blend ?
aziliks 9 months ago
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BabeaaEasteraa865 10 months ago
Do not laugh at our future overlords, you fools!!
Antiunfunktasticize 10 months ago
This new supercomputer is no doubt named after Thomas Watson, IBM's most celebrated president. He did a lot of business with Nazi Germany and sold them IBM technology; primarily IBM punch card machines. These punch card machines were used to categorize victims of the Holocaust -- so IBM can bare much responsibility for the Holocaust. IBM can hide from its past, but the fact still remains embeded in history forever.
TheTobywankenobi 11 months ago
@TheTobywankenobi
> These punch card machines were used to categorize victims
> of the Holocaust -- so IBM can bare much responsibility for
> the Holocaust.
Companies are groups of people. I find it funny that it's fine to malign that organization of people.
But what if I were to point out that the slave trade was dominated by Jewish people? It is true - primarily because Jewish people were forced into the banking industry during Inquisitions.
But if I say it, I'm considered a bigot. Funny
fuzzywzhe 9 months ago
@fuzzywzhe Perhaps you are a bigot if you limit the blame of the slave trade on the Jewish people. If you read history you will find that Egypt, Rome, Ottomans, Barbary pirates, Persians, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, the English, and colonial North America all had a hand in the slave trade over the couse of history. Furthermore, I find nothing 'funny' about slavery or genocide, no matter who is responsible.
TheTobywankenobi 9 months ago
@TheTobywankenobi "Perhaps you are a bigot if you limit the blame of the slave trade on the Jewish people."
See? I told you.
People always want an easy answer. Rarely do they look at the complicated history that produced the attitudes you see today. Look at the Israel/Palestinian conflict, it's about "religion" - except it's not and never has been.
fuzzywzhe 9 months ago
@fuzzywzhe Do I have to give you another history lesson? The conflict between Israel and Palestine is all about religion. There is no strategic importance of Jerusalem or the land in which Israel resides; it is all based on religion, even Christians have fought over the desert lands for their faith during the first crusade. There is nothing there to fight over except religion.
TheTobywankenobi 9 months ago
@TheTobywankenobi "Do I have to give you another history lesson? The conflict between Israel and Palestine is all about religion."
I really don't have the time, nor inclination to explain to you the demographic realities that lie at the root of the conflict, because you'll simply ignore it anyhow. I won't bring up the murder of Count Bernadotte, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the 1/2 million Arab refuges in 1950, or any of that.
All you know about the conflict is simplified propaganda.
fuzzywzhe 9 months ago
@fuzzywzhe If you're are refering to class conflict or racial difference then you have a point, but you are ignoring the perversion of religious beliefs that rally individuals to either side in the middle east. Furthermore, I checked out your youtube channel; based on what I saw, you are either an extremist without a cause or a conspiracy theorist. I will no longer justify your comments with a response, because I now think you are an anti-semite.
TheTobywankenobi 9 months ago
@TheTobywankenobi "If you're are refering to class conflict or racial difference then you have a point, but you are ignoring the perversion of religious beliefs"
It's about land and who is allowed to live on it. It's as simple as that.
If it was a religious conflict, the TINY Jewish population there in 1940 would have been simply all killed. If the Arabs were really aligned with Hitler in 1939, as is claimed today, why did the TINY Jewish population in the Arab world not die?
fuzzywzhe 9 months ago
Omg. I love this. This is truly amazing and impressive as hell. Wow. Bring it on.
MurdocLC 11 months ago
The moment artificial beings understand humans will be the day they will misunderstand humans. As humans we have flaws, flaws that artificial beings most likely will not understand. Good luck with that outcome.
Kimilouluvspie 11 months ago
Just one question. Can it build a big mansion in minecraft?
Randomshows124 11 months ago
wait a minute. if IBM is able to make a scripted system of decision making shown in 3:00. is it possible to that the human brain works similar to this in a mathematical term as well? I can see it now, a computer watching TV just next to me on my sofa, then it tells me to change the channel to something educational. lol.
XenoVionX 1 year ago
lol because Watson was built to play Jeopardy and nothing more so if you ask "how is your day going Watson?" it would do 1 of 2 thing 1 go looking for a document containing the question i just asked and wont find anything and just crash or 2 generation a wrong ancer that sounds right to Watson like"the way the crow fly's Jim" for starters my name is not jim and you would expect a yes or no ancer at the lest and Watson still need a human to build the document for him
dragonhacks 1 year ago
Watson will eventually take over the world
MegaMajik1 1 year ago
"I take "Leaders of Resistance" for 900$."
TheKingofnoob 1 year ago
2018 - Watson launches Skynet!
jaredleslie 1 year ago
Check out this spoof on YouTube
Watson vs. Kindergarten
profwade 1 year ago
@TheAvatarC How was it modified?
Skornish 1 year ago
Way back in 1968 Stanley Kubrick's brilliant and prophetic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" showcased "HAL" the thinking computer. It was a somewhat sinister omen of things to come, anticipating a time when computers could literally "think" rather than simply memorize and apply data. Watson shows that we are now on the threshold of that happening. HAL developed a mind and an ego and assumed dominance over humans. Will Watson's "offspring" someday do the same? Don't be surprised if they do.
JackKangaroo1 1 year ago
so were he takes answers from_ is he connected to internet? what database hes using?
btw, its amazing.
sharky0922 1 year ago
I am going to be pissed off IBM, if this results in me ending up in a cage on a robot slave farm.
robotpanda77 1 year ago
You know you've been spending too much time around your university's math department when a lot of that "stuff" on the whiteboard made some sort of sense.
braydenbeautiful 1 year ago
It's not too hard to imagine, Watson 2.0 making his inaugural speech when elected as president of the free world.. Now I'll take human civilization for 400.
shengron5177 1 year ago
It will happen soon, and I don´t know if it a good thing.
jcc2k6 1 year ago
they said in this, " ...the notion of knowledge acquired by a computer against knowledge acquired and displayed by the best jeopardy players."
the knowledge watson has was given to him by a huge team at ibm. the knowledge that the human jeopardy players have was hard earned by themselves.
tiberiius 1 year ago
@tiberiius yes and a inanimate object definitely has the ability to read a book to learn all this stuff
lucas1sk1ng 1 year ago
we need one of these systems in every hospital once its perfected. millions of live could be saved with quick accurate diagnoses
NJakini 1 year ago
Alex is going to fly in through the bay door then break into WATSON and take out his hardrives to kill him.
haymaker710 1 year ago
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JerrysFunhouse 1 year ago
Sky net is up.
KingKawala 1 year ago
Say good bye to your jobs, the end is near!!!
dellwon 1 year ago
@dellwon Psssh.. if your job can get taken over by a computer that can play jeopardy, you need a better education and a better job.
arcadesj 1 year ago
@arcadesj so what will all the people do in low wages sector when a computer can take their job? do you really believe that there will be many jobs left in the higher sectors? nah. more realistic is a real nice utopia with some nice police state backing up the govs. Obama would look just sexy in some Gadafi outfit...
schmuddelfinger 1 year ago
why not family feud
kimbobrand7 1 year ago
Y ask Y
GreatestPotential 1 year ago
To IBM: "don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed....the ability to successfully answer questions on jeopardy is insignificant...next to the power of the force"
audib6turbo 1 year ago
@audib6turbo Soon they'll have that power too...
AlesandroMoon 1 year ago
A.I. FTW!!!
McSibiss 1 year ago
KILL IT NOW can anyone say "1984"
basscasey 1 year ago
@basscasey Watson said that Toronto was part of the United States NOT Canada in his Jeopardy debut. It is all linked to computer fraud of the estate of me DEAD. You see the computers were programmed by crooked attorneys to dissolve the United States. Obama! It was stated that way in a deposition in Arizona of the real mastermind of 911.Maybe the computer made a record of me dead in Toronto too not lol. The kicker was the "World Community" charity which benefits as a write for him. wtf. HRSiegal
HoneySiegalSurvivor 1 year ago
I thought it was interesting how Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Star Trek's writers have captured well the way intelligent humans will treat intelligent machines in Star Trek, Star Wars, and A.I. They laugh at Watson's errors. even Alex Trebek said things about Watson on the show he'd never say about a contestant live on the air. not unlike how "droids" were treated in Star Wars and how some sentient machines (that would commit suicide) in one Star Trek TNG episode were treated by people.
stephenolsen 1 year ago
I bet 5-10 years from now, we will all have Watsons in our phones.
Sprinterdrift 1 year ago 10
One person thinks that Watson is going to take over the world.
matthellenbrecht 1 year ago 6
I just watched the first day of the Jeopardy challenge. Watson is tied at $5000 for first right now. Hope he wins.
catdoodle 1 year ago
just learned that watson has been renamed hal 9000
jairoller4life 1 year ago
Terminator 4: Watson
tigerwoods232000 1 year ago
It shouldn't, hawking's voice is based off of an old discontinued unit that vary few if any other people have. He has been offered newer units over the years but he feels that "it is my voice, why would I change it".
TBSSage 1 year ago
Incredible... simply incredible!
RHIANJOHNS 1 year ago
WATSON IS THE RECIEIVER THAT WILL RECIEVE OUR RFID MICROCHIP. WAKE UP
Mavericks411991 1 year ago
@Mavericks411991 Either you're joking or you're not really getting it.
genobahamut1337 1 year ago
@genobahamut1337 ok, then expain. Watson is the supercomputer that will recieve the radiowaves to our microchip.
Mavericks411991 1 year ago
@Mavericks411991 No, you explain. You're the one making the claim. Just because we have a smart computer, that doesn't mean it's part of a conspiracy. You either prove it or you admit that you just want to have something to worry about.
genobahamut1337 1 year ago
Does anyone know what music is playing in the background?
tararep 1 year ago 2
@TheAudiobookfan Quite right - it is Jeff Woodman doing the voice-over
stebanez1012 1 year ago
@TheAudiobookfan Quite right - it is Jeff Woodman doing the voice-over
stebanez1012 1 year ago
I could /soooo/ refactor Watson for a more pressing need. "Participatory deliberation" as end goal, with Jeopardy as test-bed. @bentrem
tremben 1 year ago
This is so interesting. IBM--You gotta luv 'em.
TheQuindecillion 1 year ago
wow anyone who cant beat a super computer in jeopardy is a dumass
xXWestCoastTerrorXx 1 year ago 2
@xXWestCoastTerrorXx hahahahahaahahaahahaha you're a joke.
clippers5fan 1 year ago
okay, this Watson system can participate in jeopardy, now something cognitively harder, like conversation on any topic within database, with questions on level of Bill Maher or Jon Stewart .. :)
Derealmist 1 year ago
1996 - Deep Blue beats Kasparov.
2011 - Watson beats Jennings.
2032 - IBM passes the Turing Test.
FiverBeyond 1 year ago 31
@FiverBeyond Deep Blue only won 1 game, 2 of them were drawn, Kasparov won 3 of them. So..
Tullppa 1 year ago
@Tullppa
Oops, you're right, I should've made that date 1997.
FiverBeyond 1 year ago
@FiverBeyond
2032?
My guess is that it will happen way sooner than that.
rock3tcat 1 year ago
@rock3tcat
That kinda scares me. I've always said that any computer who I can text-chat with for an hour (no holds barred!) and still remain unsure whether it's a computer deserves, in my book, full legal citizenship, and public recognition as a sentient being. The idea that I may have to do that in my lifetime is simultaneously exciting and frightening.
FiverBeyond 1 year ago
@FiverBeyond So far I can find out is a web bot a bot or real person pretty fast. Bots don't react to my way of thinking like humans do.
Kratax 1 year ago
@Kratax
It's a topic that I've studied a little and am fascinated by: you're right that the difference between chat-bots and real people is usually instantly obvious, so much so that I think the question of whether we could have a chat-bot indistinguishable to a human is almost philosophical.
Having said that, the history of Computer Science has been one of discovering surprising advances. I might need to be prepared for a "fully-concious" computer AI in my lifetime.
FiverBeyond 1 year ago
@FiverBeyond If IBM did what they did in 15 years, I guess it will take less time to achieve new challenges.
ElvisCamillo 1 year ago
@FiverBeyond I say before 2032. It will be within the range of 2019 and 2026
WARDOG1138 1 year ago
@FiverBeyond "IBM passes the Turing Test."
The Turing Test can probably be passed today, but if it does, it's classified.
The uses for Watson far surpass things like a search engine. It could be used as an assistance to a researcher.
fuzzywzhe 9 months ago
Good god, you're all fucking nuts. < < It's a project, not the end of the world. Take a chill pill or a dozen.
Driftshift66 1 year ago 2
ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!! ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!
puretroubleman 1 year ago
see, soon nobody will have to go to work or use money. the computer will design robots to farm and deliver food and to make manufactured goods for us. The only "real jobs" will be fixing and improving the automatons. Everyone else can go make art or learn or read or fuck all day or whatever. It will be all good. I will be one of the robot fixers :)
BladeMcCool 1 year ago
Next stop, The Price Is Right!
Aerlenbach 1 year ago
we are fucked.. we are really fucked
theend1245 1 year ago 2
can't wait to see the show!
esquimalt1 1 year ago
god damn it! enough skynet shit! Robots arent going to conquer us! If anything, we will "merge" with them via nanobots and semi-organic implants
ataraxic89 1 year ago
Pray the final jeopardy to determine mankind's fate is about i love lucy!!!!!!
dcymlis 1 year ago 2
IBM...the real life skynet..
Vladimir0538 1 year ago
The Japanese will create the mecanics and the americans will create the brain...so the real question is...will it blend?
Vladimir0538 1 year ago 10
@Vladimir0538
stop asking will it blend that shits retarded
T1memaster 1 year ago
Would love to know what software Watson's using to speak. It sounds very natural but easy to understand, and it's English, so it can't be VOCALOID...?
TheRainstorm97 1 year ago
@TheRainstorm97 @TheRainstorm97 I doubt it would be Vocaloid; the English version of Vocaloid had a think British accent and besides IBM has enough resources to create a new speech synthesizer themselves.
Silverblood9 1 year ago
Not a single dislike!
AtticiStonestrom 1 year ago 2
@AtticiStonestrom they are IBM, they can hack youtube and fake the results, :D
sombriks1 1 year ago
They should turn this into a web site where you can get exact answers or sell it to Google
qborg69 1 year ago
Yahoo answers just went out of business
dbend144 1 year ago
Skynet is comming...
dant008 1 year ago 3
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.
trulez 1 year ago 2
LOL. IBM always takes the brute force computing power approach. Running hundreds of algorithms, then formulating an answer on the "belief" (biased probability) of which ones are most likely to be correct is not how people do this sort of thing. Of course, it's in IBMs best interest to promote the more computationally intensive approaches :) Nevertheless, Watson is quite a feat.
ektrules 1 year ago
This is the kind of thing I want to see be done with computers, its doesn't just process and store information, it understands it to some degree. In the last 10 years most consumer grade computers have gotten faster and can hold more information, but maybe in another 10, they can understand the information people enter. I really hope things like Watson can be a real game changer for how people think about what computers can do.
s0nnyburnett 1 year ago
This is awesome! Technology just keeps moving forward, and there's no sign that it's stopping!
Maybe they should build a computer that can shoot lasers...
NathanReggae 1 year ago
This is awesome! Technology just keeps moving forward, and there's no sign that it's stopping!
Maybe they should build a computer that can shoot lasers...
NathanReggae 1 year ago
skynet is about to activate.... we are doomed! DOOMED!
salapiiras 1 year ago
isnt this pretty much what google does?
thramagen 1 year ago
Jesus... this truly is Epic
poolman20001 1 year ago
Unimaginable possibilities!...
jbsegui 1 year ago
I would watch a 2-hour documentary about this...
Think of how important this footage will be 100 years from now!
InuvikPhil 1 year ago 2
i hope all their programmers watched terminator and made sure there is a "do not anything which might result into killing a living beeing"-directive... otherwise terminator wont be science fiction and more of a forecast
TaoriUTS 1 year ago
This is good news everyone ! Soon Robots and computers will start taking more and more of our jobs !! ISNT THAT GREAT !!
JigglesJingle 1 year ago
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@JigglesJingle
yes...they should move in the direction of cheap, stupid, solar powered robots that will do my housework...
ladster3 1 year ago
@JigglesJingle let's face it: you're not smart enough to have a job that Watson would want. so don't worry.
kyledavid80 1 year ago
that much closer to skynet
Halo2isgay87 1 year ago
Let's get ready to rumble! IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions: IBM and and America’s Favorite Quiz show® Jeopardy! have announced that an IBM computing system named “Watson” will compete on Jeopardy! against the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition will air on February 14, 15 and 16, 2011, with two matches being played over three consecutive days.
joekiddone 1 year ago
The ultimate question, when will IBM weaponize Watson?
BruceArctor 1 year ago
@BruceArctor The information from my source told me that AI(Artificial Intelligence) is already weaponized in the area of nanotechnology militray weapons smartdust(try to Google Smartdust Active Laser Transmitter for UCLA online report) which capable to fly(mirco helicopter) to watch, to listen, and fire laser to the landed targets to suppress freedom of speech. Except my source can not provide solid proof, they are part of it, they call them self, men in grey or people in grey(Grey Goo).
BYTaipei 1 year ago
@BruceArctor IBM guys could be PIGs(people in grey) underdoged by AI+nanotech remote weapons which directly controlled by organized crimes in global ruling power, maybe that is why Jeopardy put together with AI in this show. Or, IBM is part of organized crimes, and maybe that is why IBM nanotechnology research center in Swiss almost attacked by bomb plot in 2010, but then again, my soruce can not provide solid proof, you can take it like a story, a sad one though.
BYTaipei 1 year ago
@BYTaipei You woke me up. Thanks. God bless Taiwan. In reality what I said was meant as a joke. You should really look up a DARPA program called SYNAPSE. Good luck with your conspiracy theories. The best for your country.
BruceArctor 1 year ago
@BruceArctor Thanks for your infromation, after a quick look, I have a feeling I am going to know something important from your information about DARPA SyNapse Project which IBM funded to research and develop. BTW, the university published the online report of SALT(Smartdust Active Laser Transmitter) is UC Berkeley, not UCLA.
BYTaipei 1 year ago
@BYTaipei We are now living in a Brave New World. Take it as you wish.
BruceArctor 1 year ago 2
hahaha at 2:59 one of the guys at IBM is using a Mac computer.
gcamiloc092 1 year ago
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joannbrereton 1 year ago
@groundzerobuild
Well Islam encourages science and engineering, so to be perfectly honest I think that you're full of shit. :D
Go troll somewhere else. :)
rock3tcat 1 year ago
@groundzerobuild uhh no
Silverweed 1 year ago
If the computer was really smart, it would just steal the answers from the jeopardy computers...
DiMachevelle 1 year ago
We need this in all our houses.
ghostNE1 1 year ago
@ghostNE1 I think we will have one of those between 10 and 15 years, maybe in 20 years it will fit on our cellphone. A good chess program needs nothing more than a reasonably priced laptop to beat a world class player for several years now. Deep blue is only 13 years old.
Eventually we're going to have to ask ourselves why we need secretaries, marketeers, assistant managers, lawyers or even a CEO if a machine can even do these jobs as well... xD
noxure 1 year ago
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jou00jou 1 year ago
@noxure That's why I am in computer science :)
Computers can't replace programmers
Oh and it doesn't have to fi in your cellphone. We just need fast internet and then your mobile devise can just connect to more powerful computers.
jou00jou 1 year ago
@jou00jou Well, they could replace us too. The way Watson works is basically what we programmers do: a client has an idea in the form of natural language and we analyze that, chunk it into algorithms and translate into a language that can be compiled into a software program.
Personally I would prefer to be in charge of the information my an agent uses, I wouldn't trust public servers or clouds. Imagine what corporations would give to have your AI-buddy tell you what products to buy...
noxure 1 year ago
@jou00jou What makes you think that we can't someday describe to a computer a problem or idea for a program and it makes the program/solution for you? We are all expendable, eventually the intelligence and creativity of the computer will exceeds ours, it's inevitable.
c0mputar 1 year ago
watson vs. ken jennings vs. brad rutter showdown on Feb 14th-16th, like so people know
TheBigEmonarch 1 year ago
ANOTHER MOVIE LIKE DEEP BLUE???
dingumfCallofDuty 1 year ago
That computer said it loves lucifer 1:47
trevylove 1 year ago
HUMANITY IS DOOMED.... ask it how to make a nuke... i dare you....
pillagerromanman 1 year ago
the computer's voice sounds eerily like Stephen Hawking's.....gasp --- I think they've sealed the good Dr in a box and are forcing him to answer questions and pretending it's a computer! IBM, I have figured out your fiendishly evil plan -- for the love of God, let Dr Hawking out of the "Watson" box!
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Dirtfire 1 year ago
is there any chance that this is going to be part of a feature-length documentary? i sure hope so.
plastictaxicabs 1 year ago 62
@plastictaxicabs it was on NOVA last night.
kironoHasama 1 year ago
@plastictaxicabs If it helps, the entire episode is on nova.com
choniz1 1 year ago
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Bazilisk2 1 year ago
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NOVA S38E13 Smartest Machine on Earth
Bazilisk2 1 year ago
fantastic work and the pat on the back to the developers at IBM Research labs!! Is it any coincidence that the computer is called 'Watson' - one of the original presidents of the Company, Thomas John Watson :D
IshtarBellydancer 1 year ago
@IshtarBellydancer Or Dr. Watson, from Sherlock Holmes
ghostNE1 1 year ago
@ghostNE1 LOL Exactly !!! :D great name!!
IshtarBellydancer 1 year ago
@IshtarBellydancer well, IBM Watson was developed at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center
kyledavid80 1 year ago
@kyledavid80 lol of course!! I used to work for IBM in procurement with mid-range systems, mainly as/400, rs/6000 ... fun days!
IshtarBellydancer 1 year ago
What is..Skynet?
CaptnGraviton 1 year ago 4
who did the music for this video?
fragged131 1 year ago
@fragged131 Sounds like Philip Glass.
ChillGregD 1 year ago
"What is Kenny Rogers?" Oh Watson, I don't think Mr. Rogers would like to be referred to as a thing.
jimspice 1 year ago
will it need the cowbell architecture ?
CRAKIZGOOD 1 year ago
@CRAKIZGOOD I certainly think it needs more cowbell.
absurdmike 1 year ago