I.B.M.'s "Watson"

by Darkjedi 2011-02-14, 20:21

Will a machine beat out the greatest Jeopardy champions? We'll have to see this Wednesday.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/howlett/ibm-watsons-jeopardy-play/2890

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3IryWr4c8&feature=related (Embedding isn't working for some reason)

I saw the special on Nova. Man, it was good! They even explained how some of the "machine learning" algorithms work. I highly suggest you watch it. (If you get that show. Here in the states it's on PBS)

This is really a milestone in software engineering!

by **Leach54** 2011-02-14, 21:40

im super exited to see it!

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-15, 01:05

I think most Nova programs are hosted online on the Nova website, but I'm not sure, it at least used to be that way

by Evil Person 2011-02-15, 01:55

Watson, yeah, not as impressive as i thought it was going to be, i saw that jepardy episode earlyer, but its still pritty cool Very Happy

by Darkjedi 2011-02-23, 03:09

Update:

Yep, Watson won!

Now it's predicted that Watson's technology will probably be used in hospitals for use in medical diagnostics within 2 years.

Dang, hello star trek computers!
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Oh, and DW is right about Nova episodes being online, here's the link if you want to see the episode:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html

by Evil Person 2011-02-23, 03:16

I was dissapointed it recived the question through a text instead of having to take the voice recognition, that would have been nice to see it have to listen to him before answering the question, though sometimes Watson slipped up and put a compleatly wierd answer, it still had hundreds of gigs of data to back its decisions, i think it was alittle unfair, but its still cool, i cant want to have the watson computer system incorperated into the regular computers, alot faster searches.

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 07:50

Humanity just got dominated.

I hope they'll continue developing Watson. He's still got a few rough edges.

by Vedic 2011-02-23, 08:08

The Countdown to Judgement Day, has started.

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 08:22

Ok, who the hell keeps giving EP negative rep for no reason? It's like, he gets negative rep anywhere he posts, no matter what he says.

by Evil Person 2011-02-23, 11:13

WTF!

I mean really, i said something about this about like a month ago, i mean really!

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 11:48

OK, I'm gonna spend the time to learn how to remove the negative rep button, allowing users to only give positive rep or no rep at all

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 11:50

Good.

God some people can be childish...

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 11:51

Yes and unfortunately here as well. It would be nice to think we're a small community of the good people, but guess even that is just too much hope

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 11:52

Well, even good people can be rough around the edges. Or just immature, in this case.

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 11:53

I wonder if the admin panel will tell me who it is

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 11:56

Phooey, only gives me anything mod like, ie post deleted, edited, split etc

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 12:01

I think i know who it is... Check your PM box.

by Darkjedi 2011-02-23, 15:44

Thingy wrote:Ok, who the hell keeps giving EP negative rep for no reason? It's like, he gets negative rep anywhere he posts, no matter what he says.

IDK, I've only given him a negative once, or maybe twice.

Here, I gave him a plus on that post. Why did someone neg him there? It was a good post.

by **JPB18** 2011-02-23, 16:11

Who the hell would do that thing...

there! from the first time I used the rep system! Very Happy

I made him go from -5 to -2 Very Happy

by Shemuel 2011-02-23, 16:16

-5 to -2? Does that mean 5 people disliked him?

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 16:18

It means 5 of his posts got negative rep. Some were for a good reason, some were just trolling.

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 16:23

Well, not necessarily, see it's an overall thing, like this:

I get +3 for a post let's say, then on another post I get -1 that brings me to 2, say I get +5 for a really good post, that brings me up to 7 and so on and so forth. So that doesn't mean he's had 5 negative posts, it means between the + an - he's at -5

by Evil Person 2011-02-23, 17:04

Yeah but i never had any positive votes to begin with*

by Evil Person 2011-02-23, 17:05

Double Sorry

Thingy wrote:I think i know who it is... Check your PM box.

That vote was voted down by someone.

by **Thingy** 2011-02-23, 20:07

Well, I've plussed you up to zero, at least till DW can get rid of the negative rep button.

And yup. Hardy har, really funny, whoever did that.

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 20:57

Fixed it at expense of JPB losing a point in rep in the Where are you thread Razz

But yeah, you can now only vote positively for people.

Apparently I might be able to change it to a graphic too instead of the +

by **A-BIack_Man** 2011-02-23, 21:39

there is a stat on some people's profile that shows how much - and + rep they've given.

anyone up for a little profile hunting?

by Evil Person 2011-02-23, 23:33

You diddnt have to do that thingy, but i thank you Very Happy

And i will help profile hunt, i think i have an idea who it might have been If it was a spam or not.

by **Darkwing** 2011-02-23, 23:33

Thingy and I are pretty much certain of who it was

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