That's because "artificial intelligence" is neither.
It is neither artificial - it requires massive human brainpower to lay down
the main lines of the processors' brute force attacks to any problem; and
It is not intelligent - and I seriously worry that such a failed dismal
experiment of the last century now re-emerges with respectable "semantic
web" clothing. (01)
Or is the ontology forum just a cover for a new Singularity cult? ;-) (02)
I'm sorry, but I really do not see the fascination in an incredibly powerful
machine being able to perform basic parlour tricks, it is unreal - "what
makes something real is that it is impossible to represent it to completion"
- and Deep Blue, Watson or whatever anthropomorphic personality they give
the next iteration, won't change basic truth. (03)
Cheers,
Peter (04)
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| Subject: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson's Final Jeopardy error "explanation"
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| Question answering by a machine such as Watson is not very useful unless
the
| system can explain its answers. Thus i am disappointed that IBM's
"explanation"
| of its error in Final Jeopardy does not explain why it chose its answer.
|
| On Tue, February 15, 2011 21:19, ZENG, MARCIA said:
| > FYI:
| > Watson's Final Jeopardy Blunder In Day 2 Of IBM Challenge was updated:
| >
| > UPDATE: IBM posted this explanation for the mistake on its "Smarter
| > Planet" blog....
| >
| > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/15/watson-final-jeopardy_n_82379
| > 5.html
|
| This explanation is little more than "Jeopardy is hard":
| * Category names are tricky and their significance is downgraded.
| * There are cities named Toronto in the US
| * Toronto, Ontario, has an American League baseball team.
|
| This does not explain why "Toronto" was selected as a response.
|
|
| In the IBM ads accompanying the show, they discuss Watson being used for
| diagnosis -- not just for pointing out information that a doctor may want
to look
| at for a case. However, without explanation for a diagnosis -- or even
for a
| recommendation for reviewing some paper, such use seems quite improper.
|
| -- doug foxvog
|
| > On 2/15/11 8:18 PM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| > On 2/15/2011 4:24 PM, Jerry Hobbs wrote:
| >> Actually I think the question asked for an "anatomical anomaly",
| >> which could be a body part, like a sixth toe, rather than a disability.
| >> The text Watson used referred to the athlete's "wooden leg".
| >
| > I agree. It found the anomaly, but it made an error in not explaining
| > that it was an anomaly. So it should at least get partial credit.
| >
| > On tonight's round, Watson did very well. But it made a category
| > error for which there was no excuse.
| >
| > The category was US Cities, and all three contestants were given
| > 30 seconds to write their answers and the amount they were willing to
| > bet.
| >
| > Question: A city whose largest airport is the name of a war hero and
| > whose second largest airport is the name of a WW II battle.
| >
| > Both humans got the answer right -- Chicago -- and they bet the
| > maximum or almost the maximum.
| >
| > That was tricky because Midway Airport happens to be the name of a
| > battle, but it was not named for the battle.
| >
| > But Watson wrote Toronto and bet $947 (which was a small amount,
| > indicating that it wasn't sure).
| >
| > But the category was "US Cities". It certainly should have checked.
| >
| > John
| >
| >
| >
| >
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