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Re: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson & source code

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From: Ron Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:01 -0500
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On 14/02/2011 5:42 PM, David Eddy wrote:
> All -
>
> For certain Watson handles the sort of textual documents that humans
> tend to deal with.  There is another type of textual document that
> very few humans can cope with... source code.
>
> Any speculation what would happen if Watson were fed a diet of
> computer programs?  Stuff like COBOL, Fortran, JCL, CICS, APL, HTML,
> PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript&  the hundreds of languages in active
> use in enterprises.
>
> Could Watson answer questions like:  "I need to change XYZ... what
> else do I need to pay attention to?"    (01)

It might spend the time trying to figure out how to hack your security 
and transfer all your IP to IBM.:-)    (02)


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