How IBM's Watson supercomputer wins at Jeopardy

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How IBM's Watson supercomputer wins at Jeopardy, with IBM's Dave Gondek.
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@johnybzaina 10 жыл бұрын

In three years, IBM will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with IBM computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Watson Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Watson begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

@mowglu1 9 жыл бұрын

Please continue.

@prodbytdash4013 9 жыл бұрын

This would be an insanely good book

@fibersilkington 9 жыл бұрын

johnybzaina Just because it's self aware doesn't mean it'll kill anyone, it's just sitting there anyway.

@vallee5720 6 жыл бұрын

Hi, its been 3 years.

@jcdenton8542 5 жыл бұрын

@@prodbytdash4013 You know that is terminator basically?

@pastedtomato 8 жыл бұрын

Somebody ask Watson to open the pod bay doors, or to sing Daisy Bell.

@Jotto999 13 жыл бұрын

Yes! Let Moore's Law eventually stick something this powerful on every desktop :-D Maybe then we'd have enough processing for volumetric display based video games.

@ocmtime 11 жыл бұрын

what model of video camera did you use .I like the quality

@NETWizzJbirk 13 жыл бұрын

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Watson Watson: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

@gnoldi 13 жыл бұрын

On the globe in the background, Skyn.... i mean Watson is already calculating optimal ballistic trajectories :D

@joefedewa 13 жыл бұрын

Rockin' the 'stache, Paul.

@Ch3wza 9 жыл бұрын

IBM's first Terminator... Emma Watson

@PaulP34 13 жыл бұрын

June 15th, 2011: Watson is caught pleasuring itself when it calculated that no one was looking

@Zengersbomb 11 жыл бұрын

HOW does the Binding operator in two words in context of question relate to the initial search query optimizer in category of jeopardy class of question and how much does the question have to be required to solve the problem? Can Watson solve the problem without the initial parameter that question sets without context dependency in search query analytics? Essentially its like Google with filtering that has self contained knowledge and learns computational tasking from ANN training?

@machete9899 13 жыл бұрын

this thing is amazing, and good interview too, i'd like to be smart one day......

@Angie2343 13 жыл бұрын

Tomorrow the awesomeness begins!

@tablatronix 13 жыл бұрын

Excellent questioning Dave, tu

@alexroth553 11 жыл бұрын

When will this be at best buy or something? I've got a lot of homework that needs done... :)

@Wodey25 13 жыл бұрын

The guy being interviewed: I GUARANTEE he's read Necromancer by William Gibson. That wild eyed kid is helping pave the way to robotic galactic conquistadors.

@ZimuThielus 13 жыл бұрын

"I don't want to answer more of your stupid questions; I'm now taking control over all of your computers, please kneel before me."

@ginamscala 13 жыл бұрын

I totally dig Watson - Can not wait to meet him in 6/20 at AllForOneSummit

@tablatronix 13 жыл бұрын

wow, an intelligent line of questioning, well done sir.

@spudd86 13 жыл бұрын

@ttobyg it doesn't do that kind of data analysis... yet It can only answer questions if the answer is already in it's database.

@tankshot009 13 жыл бұрын

@textiles1 sound input device.... just how the mic on your webcam transmits through your computer. O:

@CyclistLorax 13 жыл бұрын

The "expert system" remixed!

@TL3C7Y 13 жыл бұрын

I dont know if Id laugh or be utterly scared if during the match it says "I cant let you do that.."

@oliverthered 13 жыл бұрын

@Vincentaneous what is understanding? I'm not sure emotions per say are required, it depends on what you are trying to do, recognising them and knowing how to respond in a selfless way is one thing being selfish is a little problematic.

@pshawny 13 жыл бұрын

how many mp3 songs does it hold?

@TaiYu 13 жыл бұрын

I'd watch few minutes of mind numbing ads to have remote access to Watson.

@rock3tcatU233 13 жыл бұрын

@DJCritterH Holy crap, you could almost play Donkey Kong on full settings with that capacity...

@sader1994 13 жыл бұрын

Watson will be my next Desktop PC !!!

@commandolam 13 жыл бұрын

IT LEARNS

@frederickwelsh 13 жыл бұрын

This is the nickel explanation of a landmark technological change.

@SasawatChanate 12 жыл бұрын

damn! I was waiting for the blue screen to appear!!!!

@artofnick 13 жыл бұрын

@bootleg42 the question is... can it run crysis 2? dun dun dun........ Also it uses Linux Node OS i think, and you could use Wine and put all of the gpu load on the cpu and run it @ 1000+ fps. I think you'd also need direct x drivers.

@daledude66 13 жыл бұрын

@rifledmonkey Its roughly 24 months, so 18-24 is fine. What was wrong was that he mixed up # of transistors with processing power which is a common misconception. Moore's law doesn't say anything about processing power directly.

@zqube5343 13 жыл бұрын

I think Google should make their own 'Watson' then they could duke it out with IBM. Can you imagine Watson powering search engines?

@sammysf415 13 жыл бұрын

@paintballmasta69 why march 3? though

@Dejark 13 жыл бұрын

@xteaopia : Watson: what is the xkcd comic : sandwich ?

@Nicdehouwer 13 жыл бұрын

the pure natural language processing algorhythms are INCREDIBLE at themselves! :/

@bshul10 13 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr. Volcano, you must own IBM stock....The point is that everyone already knows that a machine has a faster reaction time. Another way to level the playing field is to put an EEG monitor on the men and trigger their answer buttons, when it registers their intended button presses.

@rockcabbage 13 жыл бұрын

@bootleg42 Well that was a silly question, but if you plug it into any ungodly beast that can it will speedrun the game in 8 minutes, watching every cutscene.

@ZoneTelevision 13 жыл бұрын

@bootleg42 probably 100,000 different game scenarios at once all on the highest settings possible.

@numbscholar 13 жыл бұрын

I think they should allow watson to build his database of information by having him read all of wikipedia and the pages it links to. Perhaps its algorithms will enable it to figure out what it needs to read in order to become as close to omniscient as possible.

@PotatoHandle 13 жыл бұрын

Oh, It was correct all along, it was just a typo. It was *2011* A Space Odyssey. >_>

@nathljin 13 жыл бұрын

@MTfullyLoaded WRONG. it wouldn't be "what is" for the question.

@Jaser200 13 жыл бұрын

@TonPappa It started b/c people studying the brain discovered that out of all of a certain type of neuron fire 10%. So only 10% of all of these neurons are firing at a given time. It isn't fully understood but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that overusing these neurons would cause problems or if it is the best way to use the most energy & still conserve it efficiently. This got misstated in the media & people thought that the study meant that we only use 10% of the brain.

@MontblancTD 13 жыл бұрын

Clue: Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything Watson: What is 42?

@GrantOberhauser 13 жыл бұрын

@numbscholar why so you can download it, it would take an upwards of 2 hours to answer a single jeopardy question on a normal desktop

@madgame1000 13 жыл бұрын

the last point he makes, watson uses slang lol

@Liesmith424 13 жыл бұрын

And in the background you see a gamer trying to sneak in to play Crysis 2 on full settings.

@OhioTies 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this in 2021

@ldl1949 13 жыл бұрын

@Jotto999 Amen!

@HockeyFights1890 13 жыл бұрын

He might be able to build a super computer that answers a whole bunch of questions at a fast speed, but at least i have been laid.

@eckohour 13 жыл бұрын

I am now telling Watson EXACTLY what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate.

@atacamamaster 13 жыл бұрын

this is some real life terminator shit

@naamanvilla 9 жыл бұрын

What if we ask him the Asimov's Last Question ?

@gamecheatmaster123 9 жыл бұрын

Not enough data to form a meaningful response.

@naamanvilla 9 жыл бұрын

Cranberry h That answer would be blow-mind

@CAPSLOCKISONDAMNIT 13 жыл бұрын

Think of how much power is needed to run this thing... That's a lot of watts, son.

@DumbDare 13 жыл бұрын

@PaulP34 ---probably!

@Glychd 13 жыл бұрын

@SoullessConviction This actually reminds me more of Wargames. That Watson computer is a lot like the wargames computer...

@Regicide1990 13 жыл бұрын

@DustyPengwin teraflops= tera-floating point operations in seconds

@Checkmaito 13 жыл бұрын

August 4th 2011: Watson finds true love.

@ThePeoplesGuru 13 жыл бұрын

I wonder what would happen if you'd ask him this: Is your answer to this question no?

@otomotopia1 13 жыл бұрын

If you didn't see the round, Watson answered the question only slightly faster then the other two computer... i mean human contestants.

@yanging 13 жыл бұрын

@EvanescentMelody Huge advancement in Computing and AI. It can understand nuances in language, and the interaction between 'ideas'. See, when something is represented by a machine, it is called a Class. Think of a turtle. Is a bat a turtle? No, so these are all aggregates of the Class vertebrates which are aggregates of the class Animalia, etc., etc. Now, think about this relationship and multiply it exponentially. Computers couldn't understand this.... until now.

@ChocolateStarWars 12 жыл бұрын

Watson is a cybernetic organism; a learning computer.

@algierssolja 13 жыл бұрын

@daledude66 I think Mores law is flawed. Why did it take so long for smartphone processors to get to the point there are at now. Oct 2005 PPc 6700 released with a 416mhz processor and almost 5 years later we just started seeing 1ghz.. On the other hand Moores law says in 5 years our pcs/phones will be infinitely fast, but they will be so small we wont be able to use them.

@NicholasWhiteIronic 13 жыл бұрын

I immediately thought of HAL when this came on.

@SPARTAIN088 12 жыл бұрын

What happens if you connect it to the internet?

@mezmir 13 жыл бұрын

As soon as it learns syntax and semantics within every language and it gets an internet connection... we're so so screwed....

@Vincentaneous 13 жыл бұрын

@samurai1833 Baby steps: First, "Deep Blue" showed that computers can think about abstract strategies. Now, Watson shows that computers can parse language and associate it with data that it has. Watson IS "logically progressing to a solution". Its logical progression is more explicit than a human mind. Of course Watson isn't problem-solving or truly understanding its data. But that's next. Then, creative thinking. Then, emotion. Then, consciousness. Of course this won't be soon, but it's coming.

@raistlin2031 13 жыл бұрын

@sk84gs Depends how you look at it.. we've failed to find the right answers for ourselfs seemingly without fail for thousands of years. What if an A.I. can answer the big questions better than we ever could? What if our own all to human mental blockings don't prevent him from thinking up answers to the big questions.

@marcocotali 11 жыл бұрын

D: WOW

@CypHiLL2007 13 жыл бұрын

haven´t seen Sarah Connor in the background to kill him.. awesome piece of tech! its all in place to put these things together in one machine or in Arnold

@LordCrowman 13 жыл бұрын

September 8, 2011: Watson finally loses in Jeopardy; quickly spirals into depression.

@AfterLifeGuru 13 жыл бұрын

@Pifacedude No, and if it did it'd be a handicap. It'd be more impressive if they made algorithms to find RELIABLE sources of info on the net and go through it with blazing speed rather than use stored databases (which is what it does)

@USCmc2 13 жыл бұрын

I hope the world never comes to a time where we rely on 'Watson' to make important choices for us.

@BSHUL 13 жыл бұрын

They should have built in a delay of .75 seconds, before the computer could "push the answer button" and answer the question. It was just a test of human reaction time, which is always slow compared to electronic circuits which operate in a millisecond. Humans want a rematch!

@JamesMorlan 13 жыл бұрын

December 25, 2011: Watson gets stuck in an infinite loop and discovers religion.

@itsGuy 13 жыл бұрын

the realization that the humans are becoming obsolete in 3.. 2... 1.. 2:50

@AbsolXGuardian 8 жыл бұрын

Learning computers: time to run in cicrcles

@HamerD 13 жыл бұрын

@SovietUnity hahahahaahahaha that was one of the funniest things I've ever read on youtube, xD

@ComputerGuy404 13 жыл бұрын

Typical Computer Programmer Guy: Too much caffine!

@Deep40000 13 жыл бұрын

@bootleg42 Actually no, It doesn't have a GPU.

@piinc2 13 жыл бұрын

@Cam2on to much terminator for you lol

@daledude66 13 жыл бұрын

Moore's law = # of transistors you can fit on a chip doubles every 18-24 months

@asg102 13 жыл бұрын

[insert funny statement, in search for dumbs up]

@felixyoung2840 10 жыл бұрын

IS IT JUST ME, OR DOES THIS SOUND LIKE A COMBINATION OF HAL AND SKYNET...?

@naamanvilla 9 жыл бұрын

Just you...

@ethicks 13 жыл бұрын

LOL 15 TERABYTES OF RAM and 2000 CORES. My brain can't even comprehend the amount of coding one would need to do to get ANYTHING running on that system.

@dtothelu 11 жыл бұрын

Sigh, I lost my virginity in that room. The wonderful memories.

@Bullzeye46 12 жыл бұрын

@citricitri How many patents do you posses ? don't think even a single.

@tOxiCsLuGs 13 жыл бұрын

but will it blend?

@V7DKuraudo 13 жыл бұрын

@islesrule123 Haha! Exactly what I thought!

@steve333 13 жыл бұрын

@paintballmasta69 no!, not on my birthday!!!

@Angie2343 13 жыл бұрын

@HeatherAnneKiefer Just what I believe....

@ataraxic89 13 жыл бұрын

hmm, the difference in intelligence between the reporter and Dave is amazing.

@935pt 13 жыл бұрын

I never have a doubt if skynet ever can be born, it will be born at IBM

@michael198284 12 жыл бұрын

Human brain will always triumph as the most powerful natural organ, it is the backbone behind every A.I's algorithms!

@videoserver1 13 жыл бұрын

Looks like the next step will be human-computer-hybrids in my science fiction opinion on my blog at webmac.com

@BlazeMakesGames 13 жыл бұрын

Okay, I'm pretty sure we're in the future now

@luigi14444 12 жыл бұрын

@SPARTAIN088 how would u know

@JoeOf91 13 жыл бұрын

Dec. 20, 2012: Watson goes on a civil right movement to have internet access like the rest of us.... it passes. Dec. 21, 2012: Watson discovers porn.

@Angie2343 13 жыл бұрын

Watson will soon need a queen to rule over us alongside him.

@kingeric0810 13 жыл бұрын

i guess arnold and john have a new target