February 15, 2011
The PBS NewsHour’s Preview of Watson
This segment expands on the article Josh posted Sunday. If you are interested in the ideas that surround The Singularity, this feels like a significant step toward that.
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- Joel Bernstein: I know right?
- Rick Neece: Being nice is a dainty way to put it.
- Rick Neece: Hey Cristopher? Who cried “uncle” first, at the end of your ten-year stand-off? To quote my...
- Michael Smith: Ours is the kitchen.
- Amy Mabli: That’s what happens when you give the dogs the bed.
- Deron Bauman: Sweet Jesus.
- Michael Smith: Don’t we all.
- Pam: I have a story coming out soon in a ‘little mag’, Chicago Quarterly Review. An old friend recently...
- Pam: And I thought, somedays, that my work was meaningless…
- Pam: I remember Eggleston at the Art Institute in Chicago a couple years ago. He was elegantly dressed in a dark suit...
- Christopher Walken: Hey Clusterflockers, Realize y’all are hurting. I’ve been a really close friend of my...
- Marco: This works pretty well in mobile, more so in iOS
- Michael Smith: It was not the intent of management to imply all sissies are “namby pamby”. Management was...
- Rick Neece: I take umbrage with the term “namby pamby.” Some sissies are fierce.
- Carole Corlew: Shelia. Happy no big deal day. I would start your very own post but this phone is in semi rebellion.
Synthesis comment on several posts:
I’m pretty sure my first-grade teacher could beat me at Jeopardy. I’m not so sure she’d eat me if she figured out eating me was one sure-fire way of powering her brain.
Just a thought, the new Jeopardy. Contestants come in, knowing they’re up against Watson. Watson wins, then consumes the losers in full-view of millions. Blood splatters and flies. His brain-power ratchets up on a meter. Folks roar from their living rooms. The New Colosseum!