legal and political processes is little more than a shell game; a sometimes decades-long process as futile as the punishment of Sisyphus, condemned in Greek mythology to roll a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down every day for eternity.This debut report on Opt IN USA ...
such as winning Jeopardy and playing chess. However, we are inching closer to creating an intelligence that isat or greater than an ordinary human. At our current pace of development, we could have oneas early as 2029.
often in ways that put the planet in jeopardy. To a nontrivial degree, third nature has literally re-sculpted first and second natures, extinguishing and displacing many populations and species of organisms and replacing much of the fractal geometry of first and second nature with the rectilinear...
This may turn out to be the latest instalment in a grand tradition of computers beating us at our own games. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue computer famously beat chess great Garry Kasparov. Four years ago,IBM’s Watson tookpart in the TV quiz showJeopardy!and crushed two contestants with ...
We now sit at the brink of what many think is yet another revolution in human affairs. One harbinger of what might be to come is the supercomputer Watson. Developed by IBM, in 2011 they set it up to compete against the greatest Jeopardy players of all time. As the 74-time Jeopardy cha...
At IBM, researchers are working to build products atop the Watson computing platform –best known for its skill answering questions on the television quiz show “Jeopardy” – that will search for job candidates, analyze academic research or even help oncologists make better treatment decisions. Suc...
We now sit at the brink of what many think is yet another revolution in human affairs. One harbinger of what might be to come is the supercomputer Watson. Developed by IBM, in 2011 they set it up to compete against the greatest Jeopardy players of all time. As the 74-time Jeopardy cha...
In 2011, IBM’s Watson system beat the best human players in the game show,Jeopardy!Since then, machines have shown that they can outperform skilled professionals in everything from basic legal work to diagnosing breast cancer. It seems that machines just get smarter and smarter all the time....
Grand challenges are different because they are focused on solving fundamental problems that will change assumptions about what’s possible. For example, IBM’s Jeopardy Grand Challenge had no clear business application, but transformed artificial intelligence from an obscure field to a major business....
Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997 and IBM's Watson beating Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings at Jeopardy! in 2011 are two of the most important cultural milestones, but the gradual behind-the-scenes research and development are more important. Computers are now fast and powerful ...