The Superiority of Human Intelligence in Jeopardy
A computer system recently beat humans in the game show Jeopardy.
The system was large -- "90 IBM Power 750 servers using 15 terabytes of RAM and 2,880 processor cores" -- and this video discusses the process of creating a "face" for the system for the purposes of the game show.
Rather than making something that approximated a human's facial expression, or even the primary expression focused in the eyes, as was done with the robots Wall•E and Eve, IBM chose instead to do something rather more abstract.
The result is interesting, but it does not seem to register the strong emotional connection that people (including me) developed for the protagonists in the film WALL•E.
But behind that pretty (abstract) face, the semantic and raw knowledge processing going on behind the scenes in "Watson" is quite impressive to me.
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The system was large -- "90 IBM Power 750 servers using 15 terabytes of RAM and 2,880 processor cores" -- and this video discusses the process of creating a "face" for the system for the purposes of the game show.
Rather than making something that approximated a human's facial expression, or even the primary expression focused in the eyes, as was done with the robots Wall•E and Eve, IBM chose instead to do something rather more abstract.
The result is interesting, but it does not seem to register the strong emotional connection that people (including me) developed for the protagonists in the film WALL•E.
But behind that pretty (abstract) face, the semantic and raw knowledge processing going on behind the scenes in "Watson" is quite impressive to me.
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