{"id":4744,"date":"2011-02-14T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:41:04","slug":"watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/02\/14\/watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting times for machine learning and artificial intelligence fans: IBM&#8217;s Watson computer versus two of the flesh bound starting tonight, Feb 14, 2011, on the game show Jeopardy.  And not just any humans, I guess, but Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (I suppose the latter is less known to non-Jeopardy fanatics.)  Too bad they aren&#8217;t competing against Seth Lloyd (someone have a link to the game show Seth won?)  Here is a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/tech\/smartest-machine-on-earth.html\">Nova special<\/a> on the machine and the challenge.  I sure hope Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the audience so he can tell us whether Watson is a good Terminator or a bad Terminator.<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b> Here is an amusing curmudgeonly discussion of Watson by <a href=\"http:\/\/framingbusiness.net\/archives\/1287\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t worry Noam, I&#8217;m sure Watson won&#8217;t feel sad about all your mean words \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting times for machine learning and artificial intelligence fans: IBM&#8217;s Watson computer versus two of the flesh bound starting tonight, Feb 14, 2011, on the game show Jeopardy. And not just any humans, I guess, but Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (I suppose the latter is less known to non-Jeopardy fanatics.) Too bad they aren&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/02\/14\/watson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,50,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-off-the-deep-end","category-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}