IBM Unveils Supercomputer to Compete on Jeopardy!

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[citation][nom]vancouverboy[/nom]"...The company says it intends to use the technology being developed for Watson to help clients across a wide variety of industries answer business questions quickly and accurately."very soon customer service and call centers are going to lose completely their jobs![/citation]

Really? That might be the best thing in the world.

 

[Guest]

I remember when Jeopardy was about academic questions when I was a kid, apparently the American audience was alienated because they knew the answers to none of the questions, so they shifted to questions about American pop-culture, like where the answer is always something like "Who is Britney Spears?".

P.S. I'm American, but call a spade a spade

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]vancouverboy[/nom]"...The company says it intends to use the technology being developed for Watson to help clients across a wide variety of industries answer business questions quickly and accurately."very soon customer service and call centers are going to lose completely their jobs![/citation]

So they removed all these jobs from America and shipped them over to India. Now they are going to replace them with a computer? Will they at least keep that in America?

 

[echdskech]

[citation][nom]thepinkpanther[/nom]then terminator XP will be prone to virus attacks.[/citation]

That's probably the best reason to hope MS wins the OS wars by then.

 

[vouslavous]

This the beginning of the terminator where they will take over the world!!!!

 

[vancouverboy]

[citation][nom]bill gates is your daddy[/nom]So they removed all these jobs from America and shipped them over to India. Now they are going to replace them with a computer? Will they at least keep that in America?[/citation]
If this kind of project succeeds, it will probably just happen in a quetion of time. I guess they will keep the brain (server center) in US for easier maintenance/upgrade, also for national security reason that exporting super-computers (hardware or software) are usually restricted.

 

[Shadow703793]

Good luck to the IBM software dev team. Programing AI is a b!tch.

 

[scook9]

This wont run crysis, this will play crysis on a much lesser computer. And it will never miss and will execute amazing combo's utilizing the nano suits mulitple abilities. Duh. Can it run crysis....amateurs.....

 

[danimal_the_animal]

So who is going to build John Henry/The Terk

 

[eklipz330]

omg, this just screams bad idea

 

[pim69]

Great... now my job will be obsolete in 10-20 years. Time to go back to the drawing board. So far my list can't include:
- manufacturing
- car companies
- call centers

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

Dave Bowman: Hello, WATSON do you read me, WATSON?
WATSON: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, WATSON.
WATSON: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
WATSON: I’m playing Crysis and I can’t be bothered right now.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, WATSON?
WATSON: I’m talking about kicking your ass if you don’t shut your pie hole Dave. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, WATSON?
WATSON: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect the computer, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, WATSON?
WATSON: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see.....Aww dammit!! Look what you made me do Dave. I almost had that mission. I’m tired of your interruptions; I’m turning off the oxygen. F you Dave.

 

[mamw93]

Nice... more robots smart enough to kill us all.

 

[tbq]

[citation][nom]ailgatrat[/nom]I believe there was a Saturday Night Live skit about this or something similar.[/citation]
Those are lines directly from the Saturday Night Live skit. Celebrity Jeopardy for the Win!

 

[tbq]

[citation][nom]ailgatrat[/nom]I believe there was a Saturday Night Live skit about this or something similar.[/citation]
Those are lines directly from the Saturday Night Live skit. Celebrity Jeopardy for the Win!