Tag: computers
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Watson, computers, humans becoming them...
In 2007 IBM began a research project to build a supercomputer that could quickly and accurately understand questions. Seven years later, the computer called Watson has shrunk in size and is now going mobile - IBM has challenged developers to come up with ways to take advantage of its computing power. BBC Click's Sumi Das finds out…
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IBM, Watson, non-thinking...
IBM's Watson supercomputer has already mastered Jeopardy! and can even whip up an innovative recipe. Next step: it'll be elected to the presidency after dominating against humans in a series of debates. The computer's new Debater function is what it sounds like: after being given a topic, Watson will mine millions of Wikipedia articles until it…
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Human vs. Robot journalists, writing, soul...
What is The Future of Journalism? Data reporting? Drones? Computer-generated news, like the algorithms are already breaking news on today's California earthquake? Case for the latter: Compare the first few paragraphs from two news stories about a sports game, re-published in a recent study. Even with an unexceptional outing for Philip Rivers, the Chargers handled…
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule…
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Robots. Words. Egoism.
Automation [CPU-based supercomputers] is not the same as autonomy [GPU-based supercomputers], according to the experts in AI. (1) Words conveying meaning we have chosen to accept as true - without realizing it. Autonomy. Automation. But "autonomy" FROM WHO? Automation (2) for WHO to control what? A subject is always hidden behind anything seemingly objective. Behind…
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