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Now that Watson has played what ideas can we use for him?

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I think they should use it to figure out how to balance the government budget. How to pay for retirement, social security and medicare. How to provide good affordable medical care for everyone. How to provide welfare and social security disability for the truly deserving and how to navigate the system.

And heck, I'd like to play Jeopardy with it too. Just to say I did it.
 
princess ida said:
I think they should use it to figure out how to balance the government budget. How to pay for retirement, social security and medicare. How to provide good affordable medical care for everyone. How to provide welfare and social security disability for the truly deserving and how to navigate the system.

And heck, I'd like to play Jeopardy with it too. Just to say I did it.
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Watson is a step forward in AI, but not in the area you might think. Watson is able to solve a very simple Q/A session. While that certainly can be useful, it isn't on the level of human killing terminator intelligence. It is more at the level of customer support representative.

Good news everyone, we can now close down every call center. We have something that can usually answer questions correctly.
 
Cogman said:
Watson is a step forward in AI, but not in the area you might think. Watson is able to solve a very simple Q/A session. While that certainly can be useful, it isn't on the level of human killing terminator intelligence. It is more at the level of customer support representative.

Good news everyone, we can now close down every call center. We have something that can usually answer questions correctly.
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But will "his" script still require us to reformat a hard drive before moving on to the next batch of questions?
 
Cogman said:
Watson is a step forward in AI, but not in the area you might think. Watson is able to solve a very simple Q/A session. While that certainly can be useful, it isn't on the level of human killing terminator intelligence. It is more at the level of customer support representative.

Good news everyone, we can now close down every call center. We have something that can usually answer questions correctly.
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I can fantasize, can't I?

Won't the call centers still need to have human staff to interact with the customers? Watson can answer questions, but someone still needs to do the rest.
 
I wonder how much of Watson was funded by DARPA...you know the DOD has a clone somewhere, eavesdropping on all sorts of communication.

Just because Watson speaks English doesn't mean he can't be programmed to the same work with foreign languages.
 
GTaudiophile said:
I wonder how much of Watson was funded by DARPA...you know the DOD has a clone somewhere, eavesdropping on all sorts of communication.

Just because Watson speaks English doesn't mean he can't be programmed to the same work with foreign languages.
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That's what the new $126 million Exascale supercomputer is going to be built for.

:sneaky:
 
Watson is NOT intelligent, Watson is essentially just an algorithm that can do absolutely nothing but answer Jeopardy! questions.
 
The answer is plainly obvious. Healthcare.

IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will feed its CLU (Clinical Language Understanding) applications into IBM's Watson hardware.

Nuance makes the Dragon speech-recognition software.

Meanwhile, IBM will incorporate its own Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning capabilities into the supercomputer.

Combining the CLU language capabilities of Nuance in a supercomputer such as Watson could lead to the next generation of EHRs and decision-support applications, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, director of the Maryland Imaging Research Technologies Laboratory (MIRTL) at the UMD School of Medicine. "We believe that this has the potential to usher in a new era of computer-assisted personalized medicine into health care to improve diagnostic accuracy, efficiency and patient safety," Siegel said in a statement.

A commercial product will be available in 18 to 24 months, IBM and Nuance report.

Columbia University Medical Center and UMD (University of Maryland) School of Medicine will contribute medical expertise that will enable Watson to work effectively in health care.
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Cogman said:
Which is, sadly, quite a bit more advanced in language interpretation than other attempts have been.
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True, but it is a far cry from any sort of real, lifelike 'artificial intelligence'. The only reason it can interpret language is because they gave it a lot of rules and then fed it tens of thousands of examples of questions. Thus, it is suited for only one purpose. My point is that even though it is neat that it can 'understand' a question and search for relevant information, that is precisely all it can do. If you phrase something differently than a Jeopardy! question, it can not provide a meaningful response.
 
"Now that Watson has played what ideas can we use for him?"

Star Wars Episode 3. Turn it into an all knowing computerized answering database.
 
SunnyD said:
God... don't you ever watch ANY scifi movies? This ALWAYS ends up with the computer nuking the shit out of humanity "for humanity's sake", because humanity is irrational and the only way to save humanity is destroy it.
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The only winning move is not to play.
 
JTsyo said:
think it would be the other way around. Humans would think of things that computers can't. In Watson's case he can't even come up with guesses, what he's good at is looking up data and try to find what you're looking for.
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More often then not you are probably correct, but it is the exceptions to the rule that make him worthwhile. For example, there are now what are called "idea machines". These are computers programmed to do things like model every possible configuration of electronic circuitry. Most of what they try is garbage, but occasionally the discover something engineers had never thought of.

This is also similar to things like "recombinatorial chemistry" where billion dollar automated factories are built to automatically mix and test millions of possible chemical combinations. Rather then waiting for something to be discovered by trial and error, the process is automated and chemists can tweak the automation to explore specific things they know should produce interesting results.
 
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