VIDEO: IBM's Supercomputer to go on Jeopardy!

[requiemsallure]

[citation][nom]builderbobftw[/nom]I bet it can play Crysis 2![/citation]

I bet it can logically beat Crysis 2 before it even finishes the game.

 

[mindspring]

Watson is made is N.Korea.

 

[kelemvor4]

[citation][nom]Requiemsallure[/nom]I bet it can logically beat Crysis 2 before it even finishes the game.[/citation]
This thing's so advanced it can beat crysis 3 before they even create the game.

 

[ordcestus]

i can't wait until we have an internet resource like this so we can easily find information.

 

[Guest]

HAL 1000 is here.

 

[FloKid]

What is a computor! I bet people can beat any machine, but they are just lazy. Dam monkeys.

 

[coruscater]

[citation][nom]Vestas[/nom]How many times have you been able to type into google a jeopardy like worded question (often with puns, similies, metaphors and nonsense words) and even anywhere on the first page gotten a direct answer to your question?[/citation]

This is a good point, and there is an additional aspect to the challenge: even in those cases where you do get a direct answer to your question in the first hit from a search engine, how can you find that answer in a whole page full of text? And how do you distinguish between the cases where the answer is there and the ones where it is not? If the answer is stated in exactly, word-for-word the same way in the document that it is asked for in the question, then it's really easy -- but that happens ever so rarely.

(std disclaimer: I am an IBM employee, and I am not an official spokesperson for the company; views here are my own)

 

[Gian124]

Should be digital jeopardy...
Google vs. Bing vs. Watson

 

[Guest]

I'm impress and frighten by the fear of a possible skynet

 

[pythy]

Question: What is Watson?
Watson: Watson is your master.... >)

 

[Guest]

this thing is so advanced, even chuck norris would lose to it in 'mortal kombat xix'

 

[littlec]

Hello Dave . .

 

[crosshares]

Forget HAL

Eagle Eye is watching

 

[Agges]

From the IBM website: "Watson will also incorporate massively parallel analytical capabilities and, just like human competitors, Watson will not be connected to the Internet, or have any other outside assistance."
Source: http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/index.shtml

So no Google for those of you wondering.. 😉

 

[xrodney]

[citation][nom]NuclearShadow[/nom]I'm not entirely impressed by this. When it boils down to it all it really does is search its hard drives that has been filled in with information from text books such as encyclopedias. It listens to the question likely takes those words and searches its database while also considers words with similar meanings.For example the words backwards and reverse can often be interchanged with each other and a question or comment can still make perfect sense.This computer is obviously just programmed to consider words similar by definition to help its understanding of what its asked and to find answers. It may have a selection of answers but picks what it chooses to have the highest % of being correct by relevance. I can't help but compare it to a search engine and using a feature like google's "I'm feeling lucky" The only difference between it and a search engine is that it already has data in it rather than having to search the web for it.[/citation]
I am sorry, but analyzing structure of sentence to understand what question is about and then looking through your database to find relevant info and making correct answer from it is not that simple as google search.
Not even mentioning that question or words in it can have more then one sense.

If it would be so simple there would not be needed any language and literature professors or lessons.

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]Watson[/nom]What is 'No'.[/citation]
That was hilarious.

I've been waiting for IBM Vs. Jeopardy for quite a while now.I was impressed as hell when I first heard of it, and I still am.
I see the biggest flaw between computers and humans is the way we communicate. Our brains are very powerful computers themselves, but we don't think in binary and code.
Imagion the possibilities. Not just telling the coffee maker to prepare a brew, but telling it to write an entire program for you. What would be hundreds of lines of codes to us would be an action that would take a millionth of a second. A never ending database of knowledge.

Depending on whether you have faith or not, god created man.
The next step? Humans creates life superior to their own.
The day we have self evolving, self learning computer that can surpass us, we have won the game.
It's a fight that maybe decades or millenniums away, but it's a goal worth fighting for.

 

[dEAne]

Yes One day it will the most powerful machine and you will be surprise.

 

[zmbcat]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]The day we have self evolving, self learning computer that can surpass us, we have won the game.[/citation]
You mean the day when we lose the game and become obsolete..xD

As for this - i will be impressed when they make it work atleast 90% of time, and i'm not sure if thats the right way to start off with ai anyway. Besides some people think deep blue was a scam, so uh.

 

[Tamz_msc]

I would like to ask it: What does Obama think about BP?

 

[tokenz]

If I beat it on Jeopardy do I get my cake?

 

[Guest]

This thing even finished Duke nukem forever

 

[danlw]

This is still impressive, but I did do an experament with Google...

Signed in 1776, this document declared America independant from England.
Google's answer: United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia, the free ... (1st hit)

Originally an actor, this President was in office during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Google's answer: YouTube - President Ronald Reagan - Address on the Challenger Disaster (1st hit)

This plastic utensil corsses a spoon with a fork.
Google's answer: Sporks - The Utensils of the 20th Century (1st hit)

In this country, you would say "Guten Tag" instead of "Good day".
Google's answer: QuestionHub.com - German guys. Do people from Northern Germany say ... (2nd hit)

Common to many households, this tool can come in varieties such as torx, standard, and philips.
Google's answer: Screwdriver - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1st hit)

Google did much better than I thought it would!

 

[hixbot]

I think this machine's success will depend more on the cleverness of the software rather than the speed of the hardware.

 

[wildwell]

Ask it who will win the World Cup!

 

[mr_tuel]

I will definitely have to see that episode of Jeopardy!