Jeopardy contestants need to know a broad range of topics like history, literature, science, pop culture, among many others. Jeopardy has a unique answer-and-question format in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of a question. The contestants need to provide accurate responses at high speed based on clues that involve analyzing subtle meaning, irony, riddles, and other complexities. Watson the computer that will play Jeopardy will learn to do all this.
Watson will be an advanced Question Answering system that can rival human's in their ability to answer natural language questions.
In 1950 Alan Turing had set the test for intelligence to be the ability of a machine to fool a human interrogator into thinking that it is human. Turing proposed that the human interrogator hold a text based natural language conversation with a human and a machine, where both the human and the machine try to appear human. If at the end of the conversation the interrogator is unable to reliably decide which is the human and which is the machine then he said the machine must be considered intelligent.
Interestingly Turing had predicted that such systems will be built by 2000. Of course we are in 2009 and we still dont have such systems. Could Watson be the first step towards such a system? In Turing's test the questions could be on any topic, but Watson will limit itself to the specific format of Jeopardy.
Some people may argue that afterall humans will program the computer so the computer cannot be considered intelligent. Okay here is my counter to that: In 1997 Deep Blue (IBMs supercomputer) beat Garry Kasparov in chess matchplay. The people who programmed deep blue were five computer science researchers and one chess international master, who together would have been no match for Garry Kasparov. Obviously the computer added that something which could defeat Kasparov?
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting article and I would love to know the follow up to this experiment when it becomes available! Jeopardy has always been one of my favorite shows and I cant wait to find out the results of this test.
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that sounds great... but whatever may be the case.. computers can never be able to take on humans... as the need for building better will never face away... but it is certainly interesting... all i can say is that," human brain is a beautiful object".
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Good post. I like reading about artificial intelligence. I think it hasn't happened as quickly as some predicted because it's harder to do than anyone thought. They have still come a very long way though.
ReplyDeleteIt sure will be very interesting to see how 'Watson' will operate. Artificial intelligence has been a hot spot, at least for discussions, for quite some time and there has been plenty of work and breakthroughs on that topic.
ReplyDeleteCombine that with the huge advancements out of Japan on their robot technology which mirrors that of humans more and more and an intelligent robot may only be a few decades away. Japan plans to use the robots for construction, mining and elderly care jobs in the initial roll-out phase.
Good post.
I would like to see someone beat my husband at Jeopardy. He wins every night! Bring it on. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting idea. However it involves parsing language which is quite difficult, as opposed to chess which is much easier to program.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too sure if we are heading in the wrong direction with all this computer stuff. It might end up being our own demise. Maybe I have watched too much SciFi myself, but we should use computers for what they are intended for. I would hate to know that I had to go back to a typewriter or even just handwriting everything. Good post my friend!
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A machine able to fool a human interrogator into thinking that it is human? And Watson is thought to be the first step towards this?
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Really thought provoking post - certainly made me think.... especially the proposed method to decide whether a machine could be considered intelligent!
ReplyDeleteInteresting post. I am also wondering how the whole system works. I am playing chess and still I can't beat the computer. I am excited for new updates and looking forward for more mind games.
ReplyDeleteI'm having difficulty defeating AI Chess on perfect chesssmate >.<
ReplyDeleteIt's set to expert diff... maybe I need to lower the intelligence of the AI lol
even computer seems so clever...but don't forget that computer made by human..so Human is the genius one..
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Love Jeopardy! Although I still think that if a human made the computer then the human is still smarter. Can't wait to see what other Artificial Intelligence they come up with.
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lol! Jeopardy? Computers should be the winners here! Ha! Then again who made computers? Man!
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ReplyDeleteI still contend that computers are nothing without computers. Indeed computers are so good or could be intelligent or stupid depending on the program given to it by the human input.
ReplyDeleteDefeating the famous people or an expert is a result of the algorithm that humans too has put in it, thus, humans is still superior.
i would love to see the computer on the SNL version of jeopardy. see how it stands up against the likes of sean connery!
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