Thursday, February 17, 2011
[L] Watson dominates "Jeopardy!"
Did anyone else watch this the past 3 nights? Overall it was pretty impressive. Watson completely dominated the two best Jeopardy contestants in history, finishing with a two game total of over $53,000 more than Ken Jennings. There were some odd moments where Watson came up with some completely nonsensical answers including Tuesday night's Final Jeopardy where it answered "Toronto" to a question that started "What US city...". This huge step in language AI could develop into some truly great tech or it could mark the rise of our computer overlords...
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I am completely against this. There is a well documented case where skynet becomes self aware and takes over the world I for one will never call computer program named Watson my leader.
you will call him your leader, or else
Haha, Nick. Don't worry I'll send someone back from the future to protect you. His name will be Rory.
Crap on a cracker. I missed this. I have not left the office earlier than 10pm this week. Fucking Continuing Resolution and the Dems slow walking the process. I tell you, participating in this makes you never want to have an open rule (i.e. that any member can offer any amendment so long as it is germane).
Haha well done Adam.
Yeah, it freaks me out a little. Impressed with the engineering behind it, but otherwise fearing the day that we all get taken out by coffee-balloon hand punches to the face:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/coffee-filled-balloon-makes-best-robotic-gripper
Come with me if you want to live.
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