The Computer That Could Be Smarter Than You

 Artificial Intelligence  

Of all the exponential technologies, artificial intelligence is undoubtedly the most powerful.  In a well-presented video from YouTuber, ColdfusTion looks at the potential of one of the AI leaders, IBM's Watson.

With IBM's Watson, the future may already be here; useful artificial intelligence that can do the research of a thousand people instantly. It's definitely worth noting that Watson is capable of learning, so what we have experienced it do so far are just the baby steps, or the knee of an exponential curve.

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In the video above, the narrator, Dagogo states that it important that the world knows about the first steps into the new wave of upcoming technology. "The implications of such a powerful tool are both exciting and confronting at the same time."

"The implications of such a powerful tool are both exciting and confronting at the same time."

The video includes the incredible Watson Debater demo at the Milken Institute from earlier this year.  With no human intervention, the computer scans thousands of documents based on a query and then forms summarized arguments for and against the argument.

Watson first came to fame for beating the two top human players on the TV game show, Jeopardy!  Brad Rutter, one of those contestants says, "I would have thought that technology like this was years away, but, its here now. I have the bruised ego to prove it."

That was over three years ago, and the development has not abated.

Watson can process 500 gigabytes, the equivalent of a million books, per second using IBM's DeepQA software and the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) framework.

Watson has already been introduced to the fields of medicine and finance, and now it is widely expected that the recently announced partnership with Apple will bring Watson's intelligence and capabilities to Siri.  IBM has spun the system off into a separate business unit that will allow developers to embed Watson's capabilities across apps and services.  Very soon, the system will be available on mobile devices via the cloud.

It is worth pointing out too, that when the system won on Jeopardy!, it was not connected to the Internet.

"Watson is showing some very real promise at providing accurate answers to anything, if you give it information, or study material," states the video narrator.

There are concerns though that Watson may move from being a tool, or a guide to an actual replacement for people and professions.  For jobs now that require research and reasoning, this is a very real possibility.

Comparing how Google became such a huge entity just by providing the service of easy to find information.  Where Watson will excel is providing accurate answers.


SOURCE  ColdfusTion

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