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steele_the_wolf

IBM AI wins jeopardy round, badguys ftw, and curbing misbehavior online

Jan 17, 2011 00:30

IBMs AI "Watson" wins Jeopardy practice round against human champions. This is pretty fucking sweet.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/13/ibms-watson-supercomputer-destroys-all-humans-in-jeopardy-pract/

More promo videos of it here and here.

And I was beginning to think their wasn't any decent advances in AI recently. Now we are truly beginning to ( Read more... )

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weredog January 17 2011, 08:41:24 UTC

Wow. I never realized HAL was just a 1-letter-away reference to IBM. See, this is why I love your LJ posts. I always learn something interesting :)

m4k0 January 17 2011, 08:46:54 UTC

As long as it doesn't proclaim "All your base are belong to us!" then we're safe.

As for the jury system, I dont really know.. You get a douche voting and they will just vote negative every time.

schnee January 17 2011, 10:49:29 UTC

Watson is very interesting, but I'd not proclaim it an advance in AI, myself ( ... )

weredog January 17 2011, 11:14:38 UTC

As a side note, the Disney people came to my job to study the hyenas for animating the Lion King. After the movie came out, several of the workers there were livid that they hyenas were portrayed as villains. I personally didn't take too much offense. Hyenas are asshole in person often times. They really do love to start trouble and fight.

schnee January 17 2011, 13:40:47 UTC

*chuckles* Yeah, I suppose they can be that... but from what I've been told (and admittedly, if you work with hyenas for a living, you'll know much more about this than I do), they can be surprisingly curious and gentle, too.

weredog January 17 2011, 11:33:49 UTC

Also, I'm waiting until more information comes out on how Watson was "trained", programmed, and several other little bits of info before I'll judge on it's AI. The leap of interface is unquestionable however. This is the future of how we will be interacting with computers.

Through all of it, you have to marvel at what they have done. The database action and interaction must be amazing. Nevermind that the thing has 2000 processing cores and terabytes of ram, it has brought a bit of science fiction, to science fact, and I think that is really cool. Maybe even a touch scary :)

Also, I wonder how mant FPS it will get in WOW and SL ? :O~~~

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aurifer January 17 2011, 21:58:38 UTC

I still think we expect too much from AI, at this point in time. Humans take a year of learning just to start speaking. We spend a third of our life just becoming competent at what we'll be doing, and a great deal of that time is spent with teachers actively helping us on our way.

I imagine a primitive true AI (in the next ten years?) would need years and years of curated teaching before it's ready to demonstrate anything impressive.

I mean, it takes us several years before we really learn how to use our hands to, for example, paint.
(I was looking at Christmas ornaments, yesterday, that our family painted, and my siblings and I didn't really get good until we were eight or so.)

quentinwolf January 23 2011, 04:31:12 UTC

Regardless of what's said, I still think that speed is pretty amazing... To analyze in realtime what's being said, do a query and think about what was said, generate answers, and press the button and verbally announce the answer as fast as a human is very impressive hardware wise. Just thinking about the analyzing, then querying and fetching answers, I'm thinking in milliseconds the time it takes to go through the CPU, pull data from harddrives or memory cache, then process data etc is just... *speechless* then again its several IBM Supercomputers, of course it can do extremely mind-blowing fast calculations and data fetching compared to than of a typical computer, but still that's impressive ( ... )