Watson – Uncommon Descent

Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Design Mind

Why does an AI pioneer think that Jeopardy winner Watson is a “fraud”?

The famous Jeopardy contest in 2011 worked around the fact that Watson could not grasp the meaning of anything.

relatd Doubter at 27, "I reject the strict Christian perspective centered on Jesus’s sacrifice. In particular the belief that all humans... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
bornagain77 D: "I reject the strict Christian perspective centered on Jesus’s sacrifice." And yet, more assuredly than any other fact of... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
relatd Some fiction being posted here. After The Fall, a literal, actual event, Creation was corrupted. The Bible tells us that... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
relatd Jerry at 5, A few people have been assigned to UD. It's their job to post drivel. – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
relatd I am an RPG guy. I have other hobbies involving science and military history. – At Mind Matters News: If DNA...
doubter My point of view on this matter (the ontological nature of human existence and suffering) poses a very different stance... – At Reasons.org: Science, Faith, and the...
Alan Fox The answer is, ideological commitment to a self defeating scheme of thought, evolutionary materialistic scientism and/or its fellow travellers.I just... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox ...by merely objecting using an ascii coded text string expressing English sentences — a case of observable FSCO/I, you show... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox Your quarrel is with observables such as the very text of your objection, which shows functionally specific complex organisation, not... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox There’s the strawman, we are not looking at “unknown data sets.” We are first observing a characteristic pattern distinguishable from... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
Alan Fox Funny, we have a sign that is tested on trillions of examples and is uniformly reliable.One is enough. Show me! – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
jerry If one downloads the Kindle version of Life’s Origins you will find it hard to find religion discussed in the... – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
jerry What logic necessitates either of these? Explain why the creator would want to create an inferior world? That’s what you... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
PaV Jerry: What obliged the Creator to create? What obliges the Creator to create a perfect world? What logic necessitates either... – At Reasons.org: Benefits of Viruses
kairosfocus EDTA et al, the true nothing is non being. Were there ever utter non being, as such can have no... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
kairosfocus AF, doubling down on the strawman: >>you cannot do what you claim.>> 1: Funny, we have a sign that is... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
jerry Meyer really needs to move on and quit recycling the same religion-as-science meme that forms the core of his three... – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...
EDTA Pater @ 8, Nothing (true nothingness, not the pseudo-nothingness physicists are always tossing about) is the default because it is... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
Pater Kimbridge Why must "nothing" be the default, and "something" be what needs explaining? At the level of the cosmos, it may... – At Quanta: How the Physics of...
Alan Fox KF:...why I have declared intellectual independence and refuse to hobble my knowledge on adequate and responsible warrant to your inveterate... – At Sci-News: Moths Produce Ultrasonic Defensive...
kairosfocus A foundational figure. – At Evolution News: From Intelligent Cause...