> I came to conclusion that IBM made a strategic decision to suspend all their
>research in Semantic Web, especially the work on ontology-based approaches. I
>am not claiming this as a fact, just merely as my own observation. This
>happened roughly in the same time frame as Watson project gained momentum. (01)
Interesting observation. (02)
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Krzysztof (03)
On 02/17/2011 10:12 PM, Len Yabloko wrote:
>> John
>>
>> On 2/17/2011 4:23 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
>>> On 2/17/2011 3:55 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>>> I don't question any of the statements that John has made.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is equating those achievements, which are
>>>> considerable, with intelligence.
>>> That's what I said in my first line: A quibble about the
>>> name AI is as pointless as complaining about the word 'psyche'
>>> in psychology. The real issue is to look at the accomplishments.
>>>
>> Err, no, what you were trying to do in your first line is to put the
>> naming issue firmly in the hand of the AI community.
>>
>> Sorry, too old a trick to allow to pass without comment.
>>
>> Looking at "accomplishments," the fine folks at IBM designed a black box
>> system (to outsiders) that answers questions on a game show.
>>
>> Gee, why am I not impressed?
> This comment resonates with me. I don't mean to diminish the accomplishments
>of the Watson team. After all it is not up to the research community to decide
>what can be called an accomplishment. From a broader society point of view it
>is yet another man-vs-machine landmark event that helps to move forward.
>
> What bothers me is that while opening some great possibilities to
>commercialize the technology (which is necessary step to make a real
>progress), it may close some other may be greater directions of progress. The
>story of electrical cars comes to mind. The research community must make it
>very clear to the rest of us what progress was made by Watson's team. In my
>opinion it is incremental and tentative, largely made possible by availability
>of cheep "fuel". Not unlike the progress in auto industry, and should not be
>dismissed or taken lightly. But would not it be better if electrical cars won
>the competition?
>
>> Had the team published its NLP processing algorithms, which were no
>> doubt innovative, that would raise all boats.
>>
> IBM Research is certainly not in a business of raising all boats, although
>they will not miss the opportunity to claim that. I also strongly suspect that
>those who are in the business of raising everybody's boat, namely the US
>Government, had contributed some significant resources to help IBM. But IBM
>was willing to risk a lot of their own resources and reputation to make an
>important progress, and I applaud Watson's victory.
>
>> But, all we have at this point is the equivalent of the original
>> Mechanical Turk.
>>
> Even if it was the equivalent, it would still be an accomplishment. As long
>as it does not serve as a proof of validity or superiority of the research.
>Unfortunately, working last year at IBM Research as a consultant I came to
>conclusion that IBM made a strategic decision to suspend all their research in
>Semantic Web, especially the work on ontology-based approaches. I am not
>claiming this as a fact, just merely as my own observation. This happened
>roughly in the same time frame as Watson project gained momentum.
>
>
>> Hope you are having a great day!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
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