WATSON is another in a long line of A.I. successes where after its accomplished the average guy says ho-hum, not that interesting after all. Like computer-chess,bute force conquers all. WATSON doesnt have a deep understanding of the thinks it talks about. A computer chess master doesnt invent new strategy.
A.I.s will become interesting when they tell us something new about the world. Maybe they'll compose clever stories or pictures. Maybe they'll discover something in the mass of data we have not seen before.
Lots of people think computers are powerful enough to talk and play games. They may not understand Watson merely uses search and inference without much understanding of language. It could do just as well in Chinese.
They actually showed the beginning of the filming of tonight's show.
The first time the Jeopardy producers saw Watson in action, the performance was erratic. But a fairly simple change made a respectable improvement. That was to use the responses from the other players and the host. This feedback reduces ambiguity for later answers. The improvement was enough to make the producers use Watson then.
Basically anything environmental was targeted: NOAA, USGS, NASA Earth Observing Satellites, BLM, Forest Service, etc. During the Bush era these would pass, then be partially restored with earmarks. But the current government is only 1/3 Republican controlled. So I am not as worried.
A movement grows very fast and becomes powerful. It is run by an eccentric ego with delusions of grandeur and possible sexual proclivity. Then it collapses on itself from infighting and external pressure. This is not to say the goals of Wikileaks are bad, but its execution may have fallen short.
I dont want to sound sexist, but the early days of computer programming were viewed as a mere trade-school skill, perhaps due to the large participation of women. I remember MIT faculty arguing about whether to have a computer science department or to offer such a major in one of the existing departments in 1960s and 1970s. "There isnt any real research science in the field". "Its just a trade". Ironically all sort of computer science courses popped in each hard science major at MIT, especially in the MIT business department, when it would have made more sense to centralize the discipline. Plus some of the most desirable non-affiliated laboratories on campus were computers science - MAC and A.I. Eventually E.E. offered C.S. as a sub-major (course 6.3) and added the name to the E.E. department title in the 1980s. But it never a department in its own right. Ironically this computing sub-major has had the largest enrollment on campus for the past quarter century, up to 40% of undergraduates at times.
The debate is not over yet. MIT requires all students, even music majors, to take six semesters of calculus and science, pretty much same requirement for the past 50 years. There is a reform proposal to allow students to take a computer course instead of Physics-2, but it hasnt been voted in yet.
Stanford had a similar debate too. But eventally created a full blown computer department in the 1970s.
DEC made mid-size computers that individual labs or departments could afford, thus being independent of suffocating central corporate or university computing centesr. And UNIX was the favorite operating system of DEC PDP-11s and Vaxen because it was easier to use and modifiable. It was a very similar hacker's environment as Linux would became later for personal computers.
Say before ten flights, then the government will panic and shut private spaceflight down for good. If is after several dozen flights, then they'll be a temporary suspension, study, and re-engineering.
When I was a teen I had a basement "laboratory" where I kept chemistry sets, electronics etc. I built amplifiers, radios, computing circuits, etc. The majority of these items are no longer sold for liability reasons.
Merely a semantic detail. Until the 1800s the word "science" meant "system of knowledge" and applied to philosophy, region, best practices, etc. In the 19th century science acquired its modern mean of reproduceable observations.
And at least three Slashdot stories in the past couple years. Its a pretty common science fair project now.
The "swiss-army-knife" smart phone is the device that makes this possible. It does almost everything you need for a couple hundred bucks..
According to what I saw in the 50th anniversary retrospectives, the sputnik launch was was initially interpreted and military defeat for the US. The other side has superior ability to send weapons toward us and spy on us. To his credit President Eisenhower turned the debate into an international education competition and ushered in the golden age of science. The world still benefits from the afterglow of this initiative.
Plenty of S-Prize type competitions happening now. They may have some creative and efficient approaches to the space industry. Then they may not beat NASA. I fear the 2% astronaut fatality rate will sour private space travel when the first disaster happens.
About a dozen groups have hooked smart phones to weather balloons and gone to the "edge of space" i.e. taken photos of the earth's curvature from 30-some miles up. A smart phone has all the basically components in a small, light package. Not least is self-location for when it lands to retrieve the pictures. All the group need do is cobble together an App to tie the pieces together.
I am seeing smart phones used in student robot competitions and science fairs. The students can concentrate on algorithms instead of hardware then.
That is to insure adequate "earned income" taxes on which social security and medicare are based.
At this point in time earned income is higher than capital gains too.
The IRS frequently audits small corporations if they think the executives are evading taxes taking too low a salary.
There is a fold of skin hanging from his mounth over that area.
When I saw him last year he looked OK from the front. A scarf helps.
But the profile view looks different.
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WATSON is another in a long line of A.I. successes where after its accomplished the average guy says ho-hum, not that interesting after all. Like computer-chess,bute force conquers all. WATSON doesnt have a deep understanding of the thinks it talks about. A computer chess master doesnt invent new strategy.
A.I.s will become interesting when they tell us something new about the world. Maybe they'll compose clever stories or pictures. Maybe they'll discover something in the mass of data we have not seen before.
Theres a time and place for everything.
$6.5B versus $3.5B. Much of that cost overrun is from being years late.
US data plans are on the order of $10 a gigabyte.
Lots of people think computers are powerful enough to talk and play games. They may not understand Watson merely uses search and inference without much understanding of language. It could do just as well in Chinese.
They actually showed the beginning of the filming of tonight's show.
The first time the Jeopardy producers saw Watson in action, the performance was erratic. But a fairly simple change made a respectable improvement. That was to use the responses from the other players and the host. This feedback reduces ambiguity for later answers. The improvement was enough to make the producers use Watson then.
Basically anything environmental was targeted: NOAA, USGS, NASA Earth Observing Satellites, BLM, Forest Service, etc. During the Bush era these would pass, then be partially restored with earmarks. But the current government is only 1/3 Republican controlled. So I am not as worried.
A movement grows very fast and becomes powerful. It is run by an eccentric ego with delusions of grandeur and possible sexual proclivity. Then it collapses on itself from infighting and external pressure. This is not to say the goals of Wikileaks are bad, but its execution may have fallen short.
I dont want to sound sexist, but the early days of computer programming were viewed as a mere trade-school skill, perhaps due to the large participation of women. I remember MIT faculty arguing about whether to have a computer science department or to offer such a major in one of the existing departments in 1960s and 1970s. "There isnt any real research science in the field". "Its just a trade". Ironically all sort of computer science courses popped in each hard science major at MIT, especially in the MIT business department, when it would have made more sense to centralize the discipline. Plus some of the most desirable non-affiliated laboratories on campus were computers science - MAC and A.I. Eventually E.E. offered C.S. as a sub-major (course 6.3) and added the name to the E.E. department title in the 1980s. But it never a department in its own right. Ironically this computing sub-major has had the largest enrollment on campus for the past quarter century, up to 40% of undergraduates at times.
The debate is not over yet. MIT requires all students, even music majors, to take six semesters of calculus and science, pretty much same requirement for the past 50 years. There is a reform proposal to allow students to take a computer course instead of Physics-2, but it hasnt been voted in yet.
Stanford had a similar debate too. But eventally created a full blown computer department in the 1970s.
DEC made mid-size computers that individual labs or departments could afford, thus being independent of suffocating central corporate or university computing centesr. And UNIX was the favorite operating system of DEC PDP-11s and Vaxen because it was easier to use and modifiable. It was a very similar hacker's environment as Linux would became later for personal computers.
Say before ten flights, then the government will panic and shut private spaceflight down for good. If is after several dozen flights, then they'll be a temporary suspension, study, and re-engineering.
When I was a teen I had a basement "laboratory" where I kept chemistry sets, electronics etc. I built amplifiers, radios, computing circuits, etc. The majority of these items are no longer sold for liability reasons.
Many inmates are allowed electric shavers, televisions, radios. They power them somehow.
The Social Network movie captured the original Zuckerberg hack described in the Harvard Crimson. They just did it on a larger scale.
Merely a semantic detail. Until the 1800s the word "science" meant "system of knowledge" and applied to philosophy, region, best practices, etc. In the 19th century science acquired its modern mean of reproduceable observations.
And at least three Slashdot stories in the past couple years. Its a pretty common science fair project now.
The "swiss-army-knife" smart phone is the device that makes this possible. It does almost everything you need for a couple hundred bucks..
paronia rumors are rampant
That criminalizes DOS strategy then.
With 10K epochs at 27, 54 and 82 years. I had the luck of noting one of my epochs. It was sobering.
According to what I saw in the 50th anniversary retrospectives, the sputnik launch was was initially interpreted and military defeat for the US. The other side has superior ability to send weapons toward us and spy on us. To his credit President Eisenhower turned the debate into an international education competition and ushered in the golden age of science. The world still benefits from the afterglow of this initiative.
Plenty of S-Prize type competitions happening now. They may have some creative and efficient approaches to the space industry. Then they may not beat NASA. I fear the 2% astronaut fatality rate will sour private space travel when the first disaster happens.
I am getting lots of solicitations for "scholarships to for profit colleges".
And "hundreds of girls on facebook" want to date me.
About a dozen groups have hooked smart phones to weather balloons and gone to the "edge of space" i.e. taken photos of the earth's curvature from 30-some miles up. A smart phone has all the basically components in a small, light package. Not least is self-location for when it lands to retrieve the pictures. All the group need do is cobble together an App to tie the pieces together.
I am seeing smart phones used in student robot competitions and science fairs. The students can concentrate on algorithms instead of hardware then.
That is to insure adequate "earned income" taxes on which social security and medicare are based. At this point in time earned income is higher than capital gains too.
The IRS frequently audits small corporations if they think the executives are evading taxes taking too low a salary.
There is a fold of skin hanging from his mounth over that area. When I saw him last year he looked OK from the front. A scarf helps. But the profile view looks different.