It's Not a Game
My response to his article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37356/page1/#comment-231779
It is interesting that religion and anthropogenic global warming should come to Jaron's mind as a result of watching
Watson win at Jeopardy!
The fact is that anything that a supercomputer can do on a specific date, a personal computer will be close to doing a
decade later. This means that our IRS questions will be answered correctly by a computer and our internet searches
may instead be questions which elicit accurate answers instead of lists of sites.
As for global warming, humans can sit around discussing it while intelligent computers come up with practical solutions.
(e.g. Regulate the clouds and you regulate the climate.) Meanwhile, humans will be free to practice their currently
dominant religion which preaches that only humans are intelligent and computers will always be dumb.
donbot
6 DAYS AGO04/19/2011
a==a
It seems funny that a computer would challenge itself to know essentially what it already knows. Jeopardy is not a game
that challenges computers to be more human, its game that challenges humans to be more computer like. The entropy
there is key to the game, and having a computer play as a contenstant is like asking which of these 2 humans and 1
computer is most like a computer. Well the answer is pretty obvious isn't it?
REPLY
dpmartin
3 Comments
TODAY04/25/2011EDIT
Re: a==a
If I understand you correctly, games like Jeopardy and professions like medical doctors demand humans with robotic
skills. You definitely have a point there. Memorizing every bone, muscle and medical procedure regarding the human
body requires many years of study by humans. Long years implies expensive hourly rates. It will reduce the need for
such expensive doctors to use computers such as Watson as a substitute.
Oh, wait. That is exactly what IBM has in mind.
My response to his article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37356/page1/#comment-231779
It is interesting that religion and anthropogenic global warming should come to Jaron's mind as a result of watching
Watson win at Jeopardy!
The fact is that anything that a supercomputer can do on a specific date, a personal computer will be close to doing a
decade later. This means that our IRS questions will be answered correctly by a computer and our internet searches
may instead be questions which elicit accurate answers instead of lists of sites.
As for global warming, humans can sit around discussing it while intelligent computers come up with practical solutions.
(e.g. Regulate the clouds and you regulate the climate.) Meanwhile, humans will be free to practice their currently
dominant religion which preaches that only humans are intelligent and computers will always be dumb.
donbot
6 DAYS AGO04/19/2011
a==a
It seems funny that a computer would challenge itself to know essentially what it already knows. Jeopardy is not a game
that challenges computers to be more human, its game that challenges humans to be more computer like. The entropy
there is key to the game, and having a computer play as a contenstant is like asking which of these 2 humans and 1
computer is most like a computer. Well the answer is pretty obvious isn't it?
REPLY
dpmartin
3 Comments
TODAY04/25/2011EDIT
Re: a==a
If I understand you correctly, games like Jeopardy and professions like medical doctors demand humans with robotic
skills. You definitely have a point there. Memorizing every bone, muscle and medical procedure regarding the human
body requires many years of study by humans. Long years implies expensive hourly rates. It will reduce the need for
such expensive doctors to use computers such as Watson as a substitute.
Oh, wait. That is exactly what IBM has in mind.
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