IBM Computer Taking on 'Jeopardy!' Champs

[Filo127]

15 terabaits of ram 0.o !

my pc has 4 .... giga baits.

[mjwatts1983]

I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords....

[SirTripmeister]

Would be a nice spoof on Terminator indeed: Skynet becomes self-aware and plans an elaborate scheme to take the prize money of all television quizzes

[hellofaname]

@ThePeterKrpan

Come with me if you want to live

[ThePencil901]

seriously you guys are taking skynet too far. WE KNOW ITS FAKE LOL YOU DONT HAVE TO ACT LIKE ITS REAL

[nowayimdeadlol]

no nononononono

U CRAZY GLaDOS WILL BECOME REAL

FUCK, I HOPE U LIKE TESTS

[MrRodeoblue]

what happens when google gets it and miniaturisation happens on the technology?

[lucaskfragoso]

Vamos chegar ao ponto de criar uma máquina mais inteligente e mais poderosa do que o próprio ser humano.

[TheNipplesofGod]

Now when Terminators are sent back through time instead of looking like Arnold there gonna look like Alex Trebek. As a matter of fact I think Alex is a terminator sent back through time to make us all look like dumb asses.

[haymaker710]

We must join John Conner in the resistance against Watson. Resist or be Watsonated.

[IntoTheMystical]

@haymaker710 Resistance is futile.

[haymaker710]

@IntoTheMystical Watson will soon be harvesting our bodies for thermal energy. Swallow the red pill.

[IntoTheMystical]

@haymaker710 Harvesting my body ..... I'll take the blue pill so I wont care.

[haymaker710]

@IntoTheMystical Eventually the Chosen One will save us. Follow the white rabbit, Neo.

[Tununias]

Linux ftw!

[ghosted760]

Download all the build & spec plans you can find -for an EMP device- while you still can. One day soon, it will be too late.

[SanQae]

Deep Blue, Watson, Asimo, Google... Be afraid

[windatekili]

@SanQae nibru 

[qwas982]

在梦里死了就会在现实中复活 那在现实中死了就会在梦里复活了吗?

[Ni1234ck]

NOW IBM HAS BECOME A THREAT TO HUMANITY.

[Drez26]

First there was Deep Blue, then Watson, and then SKYNET!!!

[deathlyfruitloops]

How long until this becomes inhumane?

[midgetwars1]

Wasn't the beggining of SKynet when the computer beat human in chess?

[fasmgl]

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

[primogennaio]

If Watson does well enough, he may become host of "Jeopardy!"

[ryan02044]

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINES!

[Uncharted3King]

well its good we still have the man knows as "the terminator" out there, and its obvious i mean Arnold Schwarzenegger. i think he'll be able 2 stop "skyne!t". hahahhaha lol. the machine experiment on jeopardy is awesome, but plz ppl slow down on the machines, because, if this keeps up my dream job will be in jeopardy.

[chanxmanx]

there is an off button for this thing right?

[maxpowell23]

"Reasons for Doom Day for $500"

Q: This computer created to be in Jeopardy turned out to be the predecessor to our current magnificent overlord SKYNET.

A: What is IBM's Watson?

[ghosted760]

If you think that the NSA, DIA, CIA and DARPA or other dark US govt agency doesn't already have a couple of these... you are VERY naive.

[davidekozak]

@ghosted760 I concur. The US Army was using the GPS years before it was available to the public.

[str8out]

So this thing can take over humans? Really? I wanna see it calling and dealing with the indian tech support when it has a problem.

[foSSie4711]

whats a ho

[0igres]

I bet you it still can't play crysis at 100 fps...

[cmdargument]

15 Terabytes of RAM! what CPU can address that much? Now take this to uncanny valley get a few actroid err androids...Use your imagination.

[bernie23232323232323]

Our future doctors

[colinmaharaj]

Hi, did Skynet, sorry, Watson have a physical button pressing mechnism to mimic the physical reality of the time it takes to press a button after a thought?

[Weatherproof26]

They need to show more damn footage of the actual match!!

[Aname0o]

but..can it run crysis!

[comp3782]

15TB of ram, your average cokputer has like 2GBs of ram. So 1000 GB in 1TB, so that 7,500 times more Ram than what u have in ur desktop.

I want to know what the data bus speed is unless it puts its entire harddrive in RAM which would be impressive

[DivineInstructions]

@comp3782 ummm.....1024 gb in a terabyte

[spike396SS]

But will it blend....!?

[Skelet0rs]

@spike396SS That's the question

[theend1245]

does this thing think like us ??

[predatordes]

@theend1245 No, if you listened to the IBM rep at the very beginning of the video, he said it disects the questions word by word, and interprets them as clues and key phrases for a very, very, very, VERY quick search. Imagine the ability to "Google", then "Wikipedia" an answer for a question like "In 1945, days before Adolf Hitler's death, what SS Officer was reported missing and presumed to be executed for desertion?" in a fraction of a second. That's how it works. (Answer is Hermann Fegelein.)

[Nailzy1985]

@pvtjamesryan3 What planet are you on. I install IBM x3850s that have 256gb of ddr3, so why make out 15tb across 10 racks of kit to be impossible.

[califomia]

15 TB of RAM? is that possible?

[minimalist1984]

The narrator sounds like Microsoft Narrator. Sure he isn't a bot?

[Alchymyst02]

Let's just pray that Isaac Asimov's vision of technology never comes to pass in our life times...It was mentioned in History's "Prophets of Doom", and it is a likely outcome, but I think the biggest problem we face as humans on Spaceship Earth is our ability (or inabilty) to coexist.

[Rajhoul]

This is stupid, a machine will never be as advanced as a human being.

Or me.

[predatordes]

@Rajhoul You haven't grasped the concept that they already are as advanced, if not more. The computer you're typing on can solve any math equation ever made or ever possible faster than you can form a thought. Computers can be programmed and designed to be whatever we want them to be. We're only limited by the builders own knowledge. With the ability to have a "learning" computer, it will surpass us very quickly. WATSON is a great example of that.

[topjonn]

In the future we will be sending Terminators back in time to destroy this computer,....and Justin Bieber.

[adrianmeli1]

Very interesting to see examples of AI in society whether in playing chess or jeopardy or in other forms. We have yet to see examples of broader uses of AI as opposed to more specialized functionality but it is fun to follow. It always feels like we are a few years from a huge breakthough so any forward progress is followed extremely closely. It still seems, though, that for the near future AI functionality will be more limited than we might have thought a decade ago. - Adrian Meli

[HomleandSecurity]

Is Trebek sober?

[TheUSMetalhead]

A mormon, a record store clerk who somehow got on numerous game shows and is now trying to be an actor or game show host and a IBM computer. How exciting.

[predatordes]

@TheUSMetalhead I'm ready to see the computer completely destroy those guys. Probably both literally and figuratively.

[Maplesyrup41]

BOW DOWN TO OUR NEW MASTERS THE MACHINES

[Caleb983]

No not Skynet. Watson is our Mike or Mycroft. The Revolution is near

[mhwolchik]

So - it takes 15TB of memory on MASSIVELY parallel system to compare to a human brain. Pretty cool.

[XxHazardxXGaming]

1,000,000,000 fps in crysis

[01jerm10]

The beginning of Skynet!!

[Mehmegadude]

@01jerm10

except that watson isn't intelligent

[kingkongbassbeat]

@01jerm10 I was going to post that comment. Since we're on the same brain wave , lets start making those emp devices now.

[PSIboy66]

@01jerm10 we must blow up IBM and prevent (or postpone) Judgement Day

[windatekili]

@01jerm10 we have to destroy it till 2012 otherwise we will die!!!!!

[jeremysaint]

interesting story but rotten sound quality

[WakeEntry]

First its Watson, next it'll be skynet. Repent! The end is near.

[wiseGUY1288]

@WakeEntry religion is far worse then skynet,

[Dogmeat1950]

@wiseGUY1288 agreed.

[Dogmeat1950]

@WakeEntry Repent, to who lol.

[PforPunk]

Rage Against The Machine?? oO

[nineballssj9]

Watson is a machine and the other people buzzer doesnt' work,lol

[eujeeves]

Watson's the smarter distant cousin of Google that hasn't been corrupted by junk & ads on the internet...

[Angie2343]

It's XANA!

[DigitalSkyline]

Pfft...Fit it in to 1273.6 cc's and then maybe I'll be impressed.

[komoh]

IT HAS BEGUN.....WAR GAMES lololol

[TacticalFatNap]

So Watson, what is your purpose?

Watson: "What is be your supreme overlord"

[Nukefuzion]

"That's not possible and even if it were the cost would me MASSIVE."

You just contradicted yourself.

Anyway, it's true, it has 15 TB of RAM. Well what do you expect? IBM has money.

You don't tie so many computer systems together... You do realize it's about the size of 10 average sized refridgerators as said by the announcer.

[1PlayerPiano]

@Nukefuzion I totally agree with you... money is everything in the tech industry. I can hardly wait for the day when everything becomes digital :) and the day when regular computers have 15 TB of RAM... that would be awesome lol but probably not in my lifetime.

[Nukefuzion]

@1PlayerPiano Well it's not actually all in the money. It's more of the resources and innovations. You could theoretically do most of it without being a top tier company. High unlikely though. Honestly, I don't know where you got what you thought I said. For some reason, people have been agreeing with me a lot.

Yeah probably, currently we're set back by Moore's Law. Hopefully, practical quantum computers will come about soon. Then again, we'll probably be dead before they're affordable :P

[wasantube]

OMG it's HAL!

[pvtjamesryan3]

15 TB of RAM?

That's not possible and even if it were the cost would me MASSIVE.

You would have to tie so many computer systems together, it would be many data centers.

[predatordes]

@pvtjamesryan3 It's completely possible. Remember when a single computer used to take up a whole room? That thing has a fraction of a fraction of how much power a single modern-day smart phone has. IBM also invented a 100Ghz processor last year. Impossible according to Moore's Law. It's because they used Graphite instead of silicon which can withstand much higher temperatures. Moore's Law ignores tech breakthroughs that do not have to do with speed; like efficiency, for instance (multi-cores).