It's the Turk!
IBM to pit supercomputer against Jeopardy! champs
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It's the Turk!
...and then one day they say it got smart. It came up with what its cold circuits and chips proclaimed the final answer:
KILL TREBEK!
KILL TREBEK!
in the form of question of please.
Of course...
"What is 'KILL TREBEK!'?"
"What is 'KILL TREBEK!'?"
Jennings: "But if the answer is the question and the question is the answer, how is that illogical!"
Watson: "Error! Error! Faulty! Faulty! MUST STERILIZE! STER-I-LIZE!"
Is this entirely fair?
Remember, Jeopardy is not just about "get an answer, ask a question", it often requires some thinking to understand what the "answer" is and what would be the most appropriate question. A computer would have to have a certain level of understanding of our language in order to provide an appropriate answer. It's not always as simple as looking up the name of someone who painted X painting or the date a country was founded, those are database functions computers have been brilliant at for decades.
^And of course it's not "fair", it's a computer. They're going to keep getting smarter, might as well get used to it.
^And of course it's not "fair", it's a computer. They're going to keep getting smarter, might as well get used to it.
^ Yeah and if it’s not fair it’s for the computer if they are not going to translate the questions. For example when you do a Google search you don’t ask Google’s servers for info like you would ask a person you have to simplify the question and then sometimes refine it till you get what you want. I can’t think of any app or computer yet that you can communicate with just like you would a person. I've heard of many attempts (apps that try to fool people it’s a real person etc) but from what I remember it wasn’t quite there yet. So if IBM is trying to do what I think they are trying to do/prove it would be another big step for AI.
I remember Google working on something similar for their search engine. I wonder if they and IBM have been working together or is this something totally different?
I remember Google working on something similar for their search engine. I wonder if they and IBM have been working together or is this something totally different?
All Seeing Eye
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All they'll do is program it with a wireless internet connection and make it's homepage Ask Jeeves.
My instinctive feelings are that getting a machine to interpret the true meaning of a question isn't really accomplished by throwing more power at it. It isn't a job for a supercomputer; it's a job for a run of the mill computer running an advanced algorithm. The focus should be on the software.
I am afraid computer processing is sequential and therefore it can never attain sentience.It cannot hold more then one thought at a time.The logic gates work one after another,therefore it cannot hold more than one thought at a time.it is sequential.It will always be machine,a fast number cruncher.
Parallel processing in the human brain is what makes us sentient.
Is that parallel information what causes sentience, or what we are aware of with sentience? Surely, based on what you're saying, if sentience is possible, then the capacity for it is there already, it just needs information passing through it.
Processors have 32 or 64 bit data busses. That's so much parallel information for a kick off.
And doesn't a processor already have a few hundred million transistors, which are changing state concurrently? How much more parallel information do you want?
Processors have 32 or 64 bit data busses. That's so much parallel information for a kick off.
And doesn't a processor already have a few hundred million transistors, which are changing state concurrently? How much more parallel information do you want?
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Of course...
"What is 'KILL TREBEK!'?"
It's Trebek VS the Machines
"This is Alex Trebek, if you're listening to this......you are a contestant"
Besides what Jadzia said, quantum computing FTW.
You certainly deserve a prize for being "most absolutely, positively sure about everything". You use words like "never" without considering the fact that technology.... you know.... changes and advances.
Do you mind if I ask where you got your degree in biology? How about computer science? Do you at least subscribe to a periodical or two? Because it seems to me you are positioning some very rough hypotheses some scientists have about how our brains operate as hard fact and theory. No one fully understands what makes us sentient, it's still one of the great scientific mysteries. All we have is a taste of the answer. The ability to "parallel process" (computers have been able to do this for decades now, BTW) certainly ain't the bullseye.
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