After the famous “thinking” computer Watson beat its human contestants on Jeopardy this week, NPR Weekend Edition Saturday took a stab at how the Human Being is still unique: The Human Being is the only creature/machine that can laugh at, “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
Really? I always had trouble with that joke. Should I be worried?
Read about Watson’s innards - "deep NLP with machine learning, a voting algorithm, a method of interpreting the questions and assessing them by formulating parallel hypotheses, and Hadoop and UIMA for preprocessing, as well as the usual search, fuzzy matching software and of course an in-memory caching system to save time in retrieval" - at PCWorld.
This post made me laugh and wonder. Great job sharing the information and keeping it interesting.
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