Potty-mouthed Watson supercomputer needed filth filter
IBM's Watson supercomputer was smart enough to beat two human opponents on US quiz show Jeopardy!, but there is apparently some knowledge that the system is still too immature to handle – namely, the contents of the Urban Dictionary. Watson is perhaps the most sophisticated artificial intelligence computer system developed to …
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Re: If Watson was Hal
and suddenly "2001: A Space Odyssey" becomes "Red Dwarf: Directors Cut".
Rich Communications
"science is still a long way from developing a computer that can communicate as fully and richly as humans can"
Surely the use of some more colourful terms in it's dialogue (in context of course) would add to the richness and fullness of communications:
Also, we know the answer was bulshit but do we know what the question was? (I skimmed the article so I may have missed the question) I mean "Bullshit" might be a perfectly good answer depending on the question?
Re: Rich Communications
Now that IBM know the answer I expect Watson is already designing the computer that will determine what the question is and the Magratheans are preparing their tender for the contract to build it.
Bullshit?
If that's the worst it came up with after perusing UD they got of VERY lightly indeed. They're lucky it didn't invite anyone for a hot lunch.
Re: Undo the damage?
If only you could do that with small children. Or any children, for that matter.
Re: Quick, someone feed it the...
Then why didn't you up-vote me dammit! I want a bronze badge to prove my self worth how much time I waste around here...
The first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing Test
If you listen to Ray Kurzweil's predictions, actual Director of Engineering at Google, you may be amazed to see that he foresees that the first A.I. that will pass the Turing Test will be soon (as in 2070) here. So, I am sure mastering the Urban Dictionary is indeed a step to overpass.:)
Re: The first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing Test
Someone needs to furnish Ray Kurzweil with a copy of the laws of thermodynamics, and explain why these are proper laws based on physical limitations rather than observational trends like Moores 'law'.
Or, put more succinctly; "Singularity, my arse!"
Urban Dictionary?
Whenever I've read it I seem to get sidetracked into ever more obscure and weird slang for various sexual acts, this probably ties in with someone's comments earlier that most of the contributors are teenagers trying to outdo each other on the weirdest entry
Actually human communication is known to be very ambiguous
All one has to do is study other languages or visit other countries and try to use the same words to communicate that they use in their own language and it's obvious that it doesn't work. This is why automated language translation is so poor. You simply can't communicate many expressions, let alone slang, verbatim into another language.
Just wait until they point the thing at Encyclopedia Dramatica.
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