Thursday, February 17, 2011

Jeopardy Supercomputer

Forget unbeatable chess computers, how about a computer that is able to play ( and win) gameshows!

Also hilarious line by one of the champions : )

This was taken from the tv/game show Jeopardy, as two of the best contenstants to ever grace the show play against IBM's Supercomputer, Watson. If you watch the footage, Watson does extremely well (almost TOO well) and it is crazy to think of the programming it took for it to understand this not-so-straight forward game. 

Quick link  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1i7-Qx00k&feature=fvwrel

Let me know what you think about it!
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30 comments:

  1. laminarialesFebruary 17, 2011 at 4:53 AM

    mmm 15 terabytes of RAM

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  2. Michael SantoFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:14 AM

    Saw it on the news today. My first thought was: robots are taking over! Haha thanks for the vid, will watch later on.

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  3. jopjopjopFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:23 AM

    Just wait until exabytes and brontobytes come out. 1 single brontobyte is like having 1000 entire Internets. Kinda scarry thing for all of Humanity.

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  4. D.February 17, 2011 at 5:30 AM

    wow thats an awesome concept

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  5. Improve your Vocab!February 17, 2011 at 6:30 AM

    i'm sure there must be more useful things that computer could be doing rather than playing jeopardy haha.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    I watched a show about this on PBS and you're right, the work that went into it was impressive. I took a lot of troubleshooting to make Watson understand categories as it wasn't just simple data retrieval, so this could have greater applications beyond just playing Jeopardy.

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  7. PANDA.JPGFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    Hmm, I wonder if they can implement this in robotic technology! :D

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  8. UnknownFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    That's awesome. . . and a little scary.

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  9. D22 ZoneFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM

    Haha pretty freaky but thanks for posting!

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  10. RamsayFebruary 17, 2011 at 12:34 PM

    This computer was ridiculous! If the humans beat the computer I would be more frightened that Jennings was cyborg from the future sent to destroy Watson.

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  11. Bulk Up BabaFebruary 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM

    Yesterday I was watching that show . And I was like ehhh really ? Anybody can google the answer and write it during the show . That was definately horrible

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    When will we be able to get our own robots? haha

    but its was really cool/weird to watch that Jeopardy episode :P

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  13. LeviuqseFebruary 17, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    wow..i didnt know that
    good to know!!
    scary tho!!

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  14. ThuganomicsFebruary 17, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    amazing. ai has developed so far to be able to compete with humans

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  15. Igneel21February 17, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    thats awesome, i want to see the whole thing

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  16. CiriisFebruary 18, 2011 at 1:38 AM

    LOL, awesomeness.

    thanks for sharing.

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  17. kaboomixFebruary 18, 2011 at 2:25 AM

    What's next? Skynet? :O

    Unrelated Randomness

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  18. LaurenFebruary 18, 2011 at 5:44 AM

    It can help speed up medical diagnosis? I'm sure Dr. Gregory House would love it :p

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  19. BrightviewFebruary 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM

    Its only a matter of time until we are all slaves to super computers. Lets all enjoy our time now until that happens.

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  20. SkyBlueFebruary 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM

    lol supercomputer can run all of our decisions from now, from whom to marry and who too have xxx with. we will have a mini cam and wires attached to our brains

    http://skybluetrading.blogspot.com/

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  21. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2011 at 9:27 AM

    Saw this the other day. Wouldn't a computer always win? Guess I don't understand since they have Wikipedia at their fingertips!

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  22. Nik MekeenaFebruary 19, 2011 at 11:57 AM

    haha very cool

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  23. JoshFebruary 19, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    I'm amazed at how far technology has come in the past couple years.

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  24. edFebruary 20, 2011 at 4:29 PM

    maybe in the future all contestants will be computers :/

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  25. !sense!February 23, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    so scurd of the ibm Armageddon

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  26. Exile of Broken SkyFebruary 23, 2011 at 9:42 PM

    One day, Watson will take your job flipping burgers from you.
    Not just another one. The same one. He'll being doing every job. Ever. Watson will own 99% of all wealth.
    Then the purge will begin.

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  27. fabio_2007February 25, 2011 at 2:24 AM

    computers will rule the world

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  28. iamthatguyFebruary 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    this technology needs to be used for better things

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  29. Adventures of LifeFebruary 28, 2011 at 7:13 PM

    the machines have spoken!

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  30. PrimitiveMay 22, 2011 at 7:56 PM

    Dat Ram =)

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