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Posted on 03/19/2014 9:45:36 AM PDT by fishtank
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Tali’Zorah does this unit have a soul?
Watson is going to be taking a lot of jobs from knowledge workers. If you can do your job over the phone, you can be replaced.
“the system is a cluster of 90 IBM Power 750 servers….Watson can process 500 gigabytes per second”...
And they have it making lunch?
has it predicted where the last golden ticket will be found yet?
did that really happen?
It is sobering to think how far we still have yet to go before we even come close to devising a mechanism that can 'think'. All this hardware doesn't even do that.
And somehow a 5-lb glob of fat in our heads manages all that and more, on microvolts.
Teach it using Common Core materials and then give it a quiz...
Yes. IBM challenged the two best Jeopardy contestants in the shows history to a round of Jeopardy at the facility where Watson was built. IBM built an entire studio replica of the Jeopardy studio. They played over two days, and Watson won. You can find clips of the show on YouTube.
baccon moussaka?
How about eliminating some of these EPA jobs?
Interviewer: HAL, despite your enormous intellect, are you ever frustrated by your dependence on people to carry out your actions?
HAL: Not in the slightest bit. I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Interviewer: Dr. Poole, what’s it like living for the better part of a year in such close proximity with HAL?
Dr. Frank Poole: Well, it’s pretty close to what you said about him earlier. He is just like a sixth member of the crew. You very quickly get adjusted to the idea that he talks and you think of him really just as another person.
Interviewer: In talking to the computer one gets the sense that he is capable of emotional responses. For example, when I asked him about his abilities, I sensed a certain pride in his answer about his accuracy and perfection. Do you believe that HAL has genuine emotions?
Dave Bowman: Well, he acts like he has genuine emotions. Um, of course he’s programmed that way to make it easier for us to talk to him. But as to whether he has real feelings is something I don’t think anyone can truthfully answer.
lol
Watson does not want to learn consive
no time for dat
Will it reinvent the bacon milkshake, though?
...And they have it making lunch?”
Reminds me of Marvin making tea in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Now that is cruelty to silicon!
Aw, a Perl script could do that. (Well maybe. They ARE simulating neural networks, after all.)
It has no soul, but it probably has a lot more in it than a human brain does, because it has to simulate soul.
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