> and Deep Blue, Watson or whatever anthropomorphic personality they give
> the next iteration, won't change basic trut
Watson is a question answering machine and a very good one. Maybe one
day they will deploy it on your mobile phone with a Internet connection
to the processing and storage unit in the cloud similar to the Wolfram
Alpha App. Watson is not intelligent in the sense that it does not
understand the answers or questions but it turns out that in many cases
this is not necessary. I think that as a research domain we should be
rather happy that Watson won and congratulate IBM -- it is a strong
showcase for our work. Intelligence, however, will require embodiment
and is another project (see for instance Luc Steels'
work).
Best,
Krzysztof
On 02/17/2011 09:27 AM, Research wrote:
> 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.
>
> Or is the ontology forum just a cover for a new Singularity cult? ;-)
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> | -----Original Message-----
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bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of doug foxvog
> | Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2011 09:37
> | To: [ontolog-forum]
> | Subject: [ontolog-forum] IBM Watson's Final Jeopardy error "explanation"
> |
> | 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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