New IBM supercomputer to play Jeopardy on TV

[res0nat0r]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

This article above is extremely interesting.

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/

IBM's new Watson supercomputer has been fed with 10s of millions of documents and is using classification routines to answer Jeopardy style questions such as: “Classic candy bar that’s a female Supreme Court justice” — “What is Baby Ruth Ginsburg?”

This is pretty amazing. The IBM team I guess have agreed to have this computer play on TV here soon. Possibly even vs. Ken Jennings.

Check out the video above.

I personally welcome our new Skynet overlords.

[res0nat0r]

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This starts tonight, in about 5 mins.

[res0nat0r]

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[threehills]

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Equally impressive on what it gets right, but also impressive on what it gets wrong.

[mnbvcxz]

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The hardware behind this thing in interesting, but I want to know about the software and algorithms! This is after all, the impressive part of it.

Amazing stuff.

[Illuminate]

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That is beyond amazing,

Intresting video: http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us...son-works.html

[res0nat0r]

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Awesome video. It really is freaking amazing what these guys have accomplished in designing this thing.

[Illuminate]

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For sure dude, one day the machines will take over.

Damn Terminator!

[res0nat0r]

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Did you see the final episode tonight? Ken Jennings wrote in in addition to his final answer:

(I for one welcome our computer overlords)

[88Mariner]

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I don't see what's so great about this.

I could design a computer that could quickly search for non-article terms on the internet and deduce correct answers by finding the highest incidence of it in google. (or bing lol). maybe i'm not understanding what's so great here? it's not like the computer understood Ken's answer on final jeapordy.

[res0nat0r]

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Its not hooked to the internet. It is mimicking the human brain and actually understanding all of the nuances and wordplay that are jeopardy questions and for the most part kicked everyones ass.

The link from Illuminate above does a very good job of explaining what is happening.