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  Stefan Schmollack    Group moderator

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  Watson: Supercharged Search Engine or Prototype Robot Overlord?

  "My initial reaction to reading about IBM’s “Watson” supercomputer and software was a big fat ho-hum. “OK,” I figured, “a program that plays Jeopardy! may be impressive to Joe Blow in the street, but I’m an AI guru so I know pretty much exactly what kind of specialized trickery they’re using under the hood. It’s not really a high-level mind, just a fancy database lookup system.”"
  
  "Some AI researchers believe that this sort of artificial general intelligence will eventually come out of incremental improvements to “narrow AI” systems like Deep Blue, Watson and so forth. Many of us, on the other hand, suspect that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a vastly different animal (and if you want to get a dose of the latter perspective, show up at the AGI-11 conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View this August). In this AGI-focused view, technologies like those used in Watson may ultimately be part of a powerful AGI architecture, but only when harnessed within a framework specifically oriented toward autonomous, adaptive, integrative learning."
  
  Watson: Supercharged Search Engine or Prototype Robot Overlord?
  By: Ben Goertzel
  Published: February 17, 2011
  http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/02/17/watson-supercharged-sear...
  h+ Magazine is a new publication that covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.
  
  Recent blog post on Watson by Stephen Wolfram, the inventor of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha:
  http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolf...
  Contains a diagram contrasting Watson with his own Wolfram Alpha system.
  
  • 20 Apr 2011, 5:20 pm
  Stefan Schmollack wrote: > "My initial reaction to reading about IBM’s “Watson” supercomputer > and software was a big fat ho-hum. “OK,” I figured, “a program that > plays Jeopardy! may be impressive to Joe Blow in the street, but I’m > an AI guru so I know pretty much exactly what kind of specialized > trickery they’re using under the hood. It’s not really a high-level > mind, just a fancy database lookup system.”" > > "Some AI researchers believe that this sort of artificial general > intelligence will eventually come out of incremental improvements to > “narrow AI” systems like Deep Blue, Watson and so forth. Many of > us, on the other hand, suspect that Artificial General Intelligence > (AGI) is a vastly different animal (and if you want to get a dose of > the latter perspective, show up at the AGI-11 conference on Google’s > campus in Mountain View this August). In this AGI-focused view, > technologies like those used in Watson may ultimately be part of a > powerful AGI architecture, but only when harnessed within a framework > specifically oriented toward autonomous, adaptive, integrative > learning." > > Watson: Supercharged Search Engine or Prototype Robot Overlord? > By: Ben Goertzel > Published: February 17, 2011 > http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/02/17/watson-supercharged-search-engine-or-prototype-robot-overlord/ > h+ Magazine is a new publication that covers technological, > scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in > fundamental ways. > > Recent blog post on Watson by Stephen Wolfram, the inventor of > Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha: > http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolframalpha/ > Contains a diagram contrasting Watson with his own Wolfram Alpha > system.