IBM Watson - Will it become the HAL 9000?
I just love the IBM Watson Technology and have been following it for quite some time. Back in 1983 we saw a movie which is now basically a cult film. The movie featured a AI computer Hal, which decided to take over the world …
IBM Watson
For those that does not know "who/what" IBM Watson is, it is the IBM technical platform which specialises in Artificial Intelligence and have been in development for years. In my opinion it is very successful technology, which will go a long distance. Especially due to the fact that they are targeting the business world to assist with AI. When you target the business world successfully and make some money while doing so, you have more investment money to put back into the research and development to ensure a useful product in the long run.
The Watson technology has been so effective that it actually won the First place prize of $1 Million dollars in the TC Quiz show Jeopardy
Watson is a question answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson. The computer system was specifically developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! and, in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against former winners Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings winning the first place prize of $1 million.
Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage including the full text of Wikipedia, but was not connected to the Internet during the game. For each clue, Watson's three most probable responses were displayed on the television screen. Watson consistently outperformed its human opponents on the game's signaling device, but had trouble in a few categories, notably those having short clues containing only a few words.
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Watson will this year be used to analyse Wimbledon games to suggest the best matches and automatically generate highlight reels based on the crowd response.
IBM's Watson can apparently do everything. From manufacturing and medical treatment planning to portrait drawing and filing your taxes, there seems to be no limit to what the Jeopardy-winning AI can do. And next week, Watson will be offering its services to the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The technology is just amazing. Please read the article IBM’s Watson will analyze Wimbledon to suggest the best matches
But what about Hal 9000.
I personally believe that we are very far from computers taking over the world, but I just love this technology. AI will help a lot of industries to become better and more effective. It all depends on the people behind the technology and how they apply it in the real world.
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Many believe that computers or robots will take over the world some day. If we look at the speed that technology is moving at and the carelessness of human kind in applying technology, it just might be possible. I for one believe that it will take a very long time for something like this to happen. If you asked me 10 years ago if this is possible, I would've laughed it off.
Now I am not so sure ... WHA HA HA HA HA ... What is your opinion?
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AI is becomming more useful by the minute and the level of intelligence will soon exceed the human intelligence.
I do, however, believe it to be very purpose oriented intelligence and not especially useful as a general interelligence.
Merging human intelligence with AI would result in the fastest innovative growth. That is exactly what companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink is working on.
If you could be able to tap into the processors of Watson just by thinking about it then everything would change... Fast.
I believe humans and AI could work in symbiosis. At least until humans would no longer be humans as we know it today.. We are however already cyborgs, by carrying around the entire human knowledge in our pockets 99% of the time.
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I prefer to stay human.
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Some years ago a friend of mine went to work for Siemens. Recently he told me that they are working with IBM on a AI based machine (something like an full body x-ray scanning ) that will find a wide range of diseases, gathering and analyzing data from a scan. This is the path of AI integration, and with that kind of projects people will trust the technology. I Have to say that even people with a decent technical knowledge are afraid of the emerging AI revolution.
Lets hope he's better than hal 9000 lol
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Great achievement by IBM Watson this is a future for technology thanks man for sharing.
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