Michael's Blog » technology http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog More marklar for your marklar. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:13:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Say Hello to Skynet http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/2011/01/16/say-hello-to-skynet/ http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/2011/01/16/say-hello-to-skynet/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:21:56 +0000 Michael http://www.michaeltozzo.com/blog/?p=251 Continue reading →]]> While IBM’s Watson probably won’t launch any nuclear weapons any time soon, the video of Watson in action on Jeopardy over on engadget.com (boo to engadget.com for not allowing any embedding!) is almost chilling to watch.

I found the way Watson would use some of the phrases and lines that regular human players on Jeopardy use disturbingly creepy. For example, it used common Jeopardy phrases for starting, finishing and staying within categories. This was just a “teaser” for the match, the real matches will air between February 14 to 16th.

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The really cool thing about Johnny Lee’s story is what he touches on at the end of the talk. The fact that he’s just a humble researcher but thanks to the internet and sites like YouTube, everyone around the world know about his work. There is no doubt in my mind that without the internet, no one would have ever heard of Mr. Lee and the fact that we are hearing about him is a remarkable thing.

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