On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> it will be more than human. >> > > >I'm not sure what that means. >
It means that a future machine can perform any task in a way that is superior to way that any human who ever lived could using any definition of "superior" that you care to name. > > Watson "understanding" a question is not possible in the absence of an > answer. > If I ask you "assuming Eastern Standard Time did the Big Bang happen on a Thursday?" you understand the question you just don't have the answer in your mental database. Watson would answer "no" figuring that there were 6 chances in 7 that such a answer would be correct. > > Watson cannot speculate on an answer > That's not true, Watson usually came up with dozens of potential answers but he wasn't absolutely certain about any of them, so using one of his most sophisticated algorithms he gave each possibility a score based on the level of confidence he had of it being correct and then picked the one with the highest score. Sometimes Watson wasn't very confident about any of the potential answers he dreamed up but he had to say something, he usually got those wrong. Generally when Watson was wrong he knew he was probably wrong. I find that significant. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
