Super Computer set to play Jeopardy

2009-04-28 20:57:48

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6012

In a head-to-head challenge of man versus machine, IBM will pit a supercomputer named Watson against human contestants.

Watson is a new question-answering system based on natural language.

"The aim is to get Watson to think and interact in human terms," IBM's Dr David Ferrucci told BBC News.

"It will try to understand a user's question and intent and understand it at a rudimentary level and provide and accurate and confident answer."

For the past two years scientists have been working on perfecting the system that will drive Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J Watson Snr.

"The most challenging aspect of this is that Watson has to know what it knows with utmost confidence.

"Otherwise if it buzzes in and gets the answer wrong that is bad on Jeopardy because you lose money and lose the game," explained Dr Ferrucci, an IBM artificial intelligence researcher and team leader on the project.

IBM is no stranger to such high-profile stunts.

In 1997 a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in another battle of human versus machine.

To compete at chess, the company built an extremely fast computer that could calculate 200 million chess moves per second based on a fixed problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021774.stm
This is will be interesting to watch, hope Ken Jenning agrees to play against it.

2009-04-28 21:11:31

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KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7058|949

I will crush you.

2009-04-28 21:22:53

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Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6391|London, England

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I will crush you.

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2009-04-28 21:34:09

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mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|7081

Deep Blue got defeated, iirc. So even if this new computer wins a round or two, it's only a matter of time before it falls.

Either that or it'll gain self-awareness and then we're all doomed.

2009-04-28 21:39:53

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6964|Long Island, New York

mtb0minime wrote:
Deep Blue got defeated, iirc. So even if this new computer wins a round or two, it's only a matter of time before it falls.

Either that or it'll gain self-awareness and then we're all doomed.

President Eden/T-800 2012

2009-04-28 21:40:23

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Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6012

mtb0minime wrote:
Deep Blue got defeated, iirc. So even if this new computer wins a round or two, it's only a matter of time before it falls.

Either that or it'll gain self-awareness and then we're all doomed.

Nay Deep Blue won actually.

2009-04-28 21:51:01

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Kmar: Truth is my Bitch; +5,695|7027|132 and Bush

Mutantbear wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I will crush you.
/thread

bromance tbh

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2009-04-28 21:54:31

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Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|7133|67.222.138.85

This seems a hair's breadth away from passing a Turing test yes?

2009-04-28 22:04:23

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thraSK: Best ___ in Aus; +57|6409

Doesnt the story go that Kasparov wanted a rematch with Deep Blue but IBM didnt agree or Deep Blue was decomisioned or something?

2009-04-28 22:20:37

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mtb0minime: minimember; +2,418|7081

Macbeth wrote:
mtb0minime wrote:
Deep Blue got defeated, iirc. So even if this new computer wins a round or two, it's only a matter of time before it falls.

Either that or it'll gain self-awareness and then we're all doomed.
Nay Deep Blue won actually.

Er, I mean like it eventually got defeated some time later.

2009-04-28 22:37:00

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Defiance: Member; +438|7097

mtb0minime wrote:
Er, I mean like it eventually got defeated some time later.

Other way around.

Wiki wrote:
On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls. Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 is a famous chess game. However, Kasparov won three games and drew two of the following games, beating Deep Blue by a score of 4–2. The match concluded on February 17, 1996.

Deep Blue was then heavily upgraded (unofficially nicknamed "Deeper Blue")[11] and played Kasparov again in May 1997, winning the six-game rematch 3½–2½, ending on May 11, finally ending in game six, and becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
This seems a hair's breadth away from passing a Turing test yes?

Information wise, perhaps. I think it'll be a while longer until a computer can develop a personality and manner of speaking that is unique to itself. Even if you can have an intelligent conversation with a person and a computer, the computer (for now) will still answer with systematic diction and grammar.

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2009-04-29 04:01:44

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The A W S M F O X: I Won't Deny It; +172|6111|SQUID

its gonna be terminator all over again imfo

2009-04-29 05:21:46

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Ultrafunkula: Hector: Ding, ding, ding, ding...; +1,975|6900|6 6 4 oh, I forget

"I'll take the rapists for $600"

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