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Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge
IBM's Watson http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/ will start three consecutive days of Jeopardy! contests, arguably a benchmark of ultimate knowledge, against the show's two most successful and celebrated contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The showdown starts tonight! http://www.jeopardy.com/news/watson1x7ap4.php
Meet Watson:
* Workload optimized design
* 90 servers
* DeepQA software architecture
* Power7 System
* Advanced text-to-speech capability
"The grand prize for this competition will be $1 million with second place earning $300,000 and third place $200,000. Rutter and Jennings will donate 50 percent of their winnings to charity and IBM will donate 100 percent of its winnings to charity."
"Beyond Jeopardy!, the IBM team is working to deploy this technology across industries such as healthcare, finance and customer service."
It'll blow your socks off! Be there! It's instupituous!
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What is creativity if not the free exploration of possibilites, whether probable or improbable. Most creative pathways involve defined boundaries. Once a Watson-class has been given those defined boundaries that humans operate within such as gravity, landmass, atmosphere, timezone, temperature, birthrate, deathrate, density, geography, topography, wavelengths, language, etc, a Watson (or a farm of Watsons) could be tasked to solve problems far more complex than what a human could fathom.
And where does that learning start? Small tasks. "Watson, plan a better way to grow crops using this data". "Watson, design a better circuit using this data".
To solve Jeopardy! questions, Watson has already practiced thousands of questions and their matching answers. Just like a human child, it has to learn what is logical, what is associated. As that database grows exponentially, it can fall back on that data. As adult human, we already know that in many instances of our daily lives information repeats; patterns form. Creativity is the resequencing of known variables in a configuration that hasn't previously been observed. For humans creativity takes time. For a Watson, it's much, much faster.
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