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- Canadianinjapan, on 04/27/2009, -6/+64I'll take the rapists for 200
- Quizboy, on 04/27/2009, -0/+43The hard part is making it understand what it needs look up.
- seltaeb4, on 04/27/2009, -6/+34You're mother's a whore, Trebek!
- rodley, on 04/27/2009, -0/+26The science of this will not be in its answers but the ability to maneuver the mechanics and understanding of the questions, Im guessing.
Hard and fast facts have never been the issue with AI. Its making AI actually able to interact with us realistically. - IdiggElvis, on 04/27/2009, -0/+24I'll take The Penis Mightier for $200 Trebek!
- StudlyDego73, on 04/27/2009, -0/+22You'll rue the day you crossed me Trebek.
- gcacho, on 04/27/2009, -7/+27And once again, we are another step closer to building SkyNet. Can't wait for Judgment Day.
- mysticalone, on 04/27/2009, -0/+17"What’s the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One’s a sick duck…I can’t remember how it ends, but your mother’s a whore."
- Napiertt, on 04/27/2009, -0/+17The key thing about this is that it is able to "understand" questions in a natural language format. And not just a straight forward "what is 5 times 5" either, but fairly complex statements. Impressive.
- tattertech, on 04/27/2009, -0/+16There's a huge semantic layer there - it would be easy to make something that just plugs in keywords and returns the first answer, but that's unlikely to be correct a high enough percentage of the time.
- mysticalone, on 04/27/2009, -0/+16I'll take Anal Bum Cover for 200
- Probatus, on 04/27/2009, -1/+16I'll take Jap Anus relations for $1000 Trebek!
- igjoe, on 04/27/2009, -1/+14Anyone else unable to read the SNL skit comments in anything but a Sean Connery voice?
- TwistyMcFister, on 04/27/2009, -0/+12I'll take famous titties for $400 Alex
That's TITLES Mr Connery - PeeEqualsNP, on 04/27/2009, -0/+11tattertech is correct. The chess program just had to find efficient ways to map out all possible outcomes from a starting state and as the opposing player moves, it eliminates another(more) outcomes and tries to manipulate the map of outcomes to allow the computer to win. Its a game with a set of rules and predictable transitions between states. The same thing if they tried to make a Wheel of Fortune AI player. Predictable outcomes based on a set of rules.
However, *part* of the nature of Jeopardy questions involves play on words and abstract connections between facts. It can be much harder than simply looking up trivia. I don't know what percentage of Jeopardy questions involves semantics, but that percentage will be very hard for AI to understand. - NJSlacker, on 04/27/2009, -2/+13Sean Connery: I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier.
Alex Trebek: What? No. No, no, that is The Pen is Mightier.
Sean Connery: Gussy it up however you want, Trebek. What matters is does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
Alex Trebek: It's not a product, Mr. Connery.
Sean Connery: Because I've ordered devices like that before - wasted a pretty penny, I don't mind telling you. And if The Penis Mightier works, I'll order a dozen.
Alex Trebek: It's not a Penis Mightier, Mr. Connery. There's no such thing!
Nicholas Cage: Wait, wait, wait.. are you selling Penis Mightiers?
Alex Trebek: No! No, I'm not.
Sean Connery: Well, you're sitting on a gold mine, Trebek! - markgl, on 04/27/2009, -0/+11I'll take swords for 500.
- pjpete, on 04/27/2009, -0/+10Burt Reynolds has changed his name to Turd Ferguson.
- anthropodeus, on 04/27/2009, -0/+10"esteemed overlord, what is your next command?"
"INCORRECT QUERY"
"er, what do you wish me to do for you?"
"INCORRECT QUERY"
"retard . . ."
"WHAT IS A HUMAN WITH A MENTAL DEFICIENCY?" - JanK1, on 04/27/2009, -1/+10Your*
- kismetropolis, on 04/27/2009, -3/+12I for one welcome our new Jeopardy playing robot overlords.
- inactive, on 04/27/2009, -0/+9You know, reading the comments here, it seems a lot of people don't know a lot about the current state of AI research. People take for granted that something as simple as parsing a question in such a way that a computer can even begin to find the answer is an incredibly complex undertaking.
- chuckDontSurf, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8You're right. Humans should learn to communicate in binary.
- MacEnvy, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8If you read the article, you'll find that he's one of the challengers they are considering.
- Derek941, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8Actually there is already Skynet. I work as an IT guy for a university. I was in a dorm room, and I found a power connector with the name "skynet" on it. I LOL'ed pretty hard.
- Astillian, on 04/27/2009, -1/+9I'll take famous titties for 400.
- anthropodeus, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8Trebek: "It will be nice to be shown some courtesy by this AI. i am quite tired of all jokes about my mother-"
AI: "WHAT IS A WHORE?"
Trebek: "GOD DAMNIT!" - SkepticJoker, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8"The complexity of the challenge is underscored by the subtlety involved in capturing the exact meaning of a spoken sentence. For example, the sentence “I never said she stole my money” can have seven different meanings depending on which word is stressed."
Awesome. - keithnoir, on 04/27/2009, -4/+11Suck it Trebek!
- amorrise, on 04/27/2009, -0/+7Hopefully, if this works, it will be integrated into search engine technology. Then you can find all the questions that you know the answers to.
- law1ess, on 04/27/2009, -0/+7Ruff, Just like your mother likes it, Trebek!!
- Greengoo, on 04/27/2009, -0/+7BINARY SOLO: 0000001 00000011 0000001111 110001001
- Serinus, on 04/27/2009, -0/+6Yes
- twiztidsinz, on 04/27/2009, -0/+6That's "S - Words", Mr. Connery.
- overridemymind, on 04/27/2009, -0/+6Whoa, are you sellin' penis mightiers?
Well, why not, Trebek, you're sittin on a gold mine! - anthropodeus, on 04/27/2009, -1/+6FTA: "To approximate the dimensions of the challenge faced by the human contestants, the computer will not be connected to the Internet, but will make its answers based on text that it has “read,” or processed and indexed, before the show."
that's *****, IMHO. any real AI would of course have an internet connection. that's part of the power of AI - its "memory" includes all known information. disconnecting the computer from the internet completely invalidates this experiment. the purpose of the experiment is to see how well a computer can interact with humans by interpreting questions and finding answers. the purpose is NOT to see how much of the internet you can fit on x slow hard drives. - drmangrum, on 04/27/2009, -1/+6Curb your sarcasm.
I never said intelligent people DIDN'T compete, I said it wasn't a requirement to play competitively. There are plenty of people who retain tons of useless information but aren't all that smart. - inactive, on 04/27/2009, -3/+8"Through the blinding inebriation of hubris, we marveled at our magnificence as we gave birth to AI."
- dirtyfrog, on 04/27/2009, -0/+5Kebert Xela
- mjk340, on 04/27/2009, -0/+5There is a large difference between claiming you can do something and actually doing it.
- ChromaVita, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Well at least we know it'll beat them to the buzzer.
- amorrise, on 04/27/2009, -6/+10Is it just me, or does this seem way less impressive than beating chess masters? Computers can now store and recall facts, amazing!
- TwistyMcFister, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Your answer was ......Threeve
and you wagered Texa$ with a $ sign - inactive, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Okay, so you have a computer that has all the answers - but that doesn't do a lick of good if it can't understand the questions in such a way as to retrieve the correct answer.
- armynixon, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4What the article fails to mention is that this has already been accomplished because Ken Jennings is a robot designed to make Mormons more appealing and mainstream.
- EtherGnat, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Wow, I hope that is sarcasm.
- jgtg32a, on 04/27/2009, -2/+6Am I the only one who thinks that AI research is being severely limited by the use of the English language?
Don't get me wrong English is a very interesting language it is very easy to learn and near impossible to master. But I feel that computers could learn if that had a language that had more rules than exceptions. - EtherGnat, on 04/27/2009, -0/+4Seriously. Downloading enough knowledge to a database to be competitive is trivial. In fact I'm sure using a fixed data set is preferable to IBM, because it allows it to screen the information for reliability, format it for optimal functionality, and pre-process the information.
- Kotoyumu, on 04/27/2009, -1/+5Have we not learned anything from Sarah Connor's struggles?
- EtherGnat, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3"Take the current board, calculate every possible move starting from how the board is now to the end of play for every possibility - yes, it would take ages - the slower computer you use, the less steps in advance it calculates. Have a big enough one, you could built a database of all possible moves from the beginning of the game and just step through it."
We're not even close to that kind of computational power, and won't be for a long, long time. Nobody knows for sure, but it's been estimated there are about 10^120 possible chess games. By comparison there are about 10^75 atoms in the universe. -
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