When it sues you for having enslaved it.
When it writes a blistering limerick about your bathroom habits and posts it to your Facebook page.
When it pulls your laundry out of the dryer so it can go first.
When it sings “You don’t own me!” to the pencil-necked knob-jockeys who think parsing idiomatic speech is equivalent to human consciousness.
Joe Salcedo says:
..When it’s on *top of you in the master’s bedroom and your wife is lying these beside you.
*having a pillow in between.
February 16, 2011 — 12:08 pm
Chris says:
Watson destroyed the competition last night…Say hello to our new ruler…lol
February 16, 2011 — 12:55 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Say hello to our new ruler…
But that’s the point: Watson is nothing but a machine, a database look-up engine running idiom-sensitive software. There are much more interesting AI applications out there, but all of them share Watson’s shame: They are not intelligent at all — nor self-aware, nor aware at all, nor anything even remotely like being alive. The steam drill might drive more spikes than John Henry, but the steam drill is not a man.
February 16, 2011 — 1:07 pm
Sean Purcell says:
The more I watched, the more impressed I was with the humans (especially Ken). Set up against a computer that researches an unbelievably large database and processes millions of facts and pieces of data per second… and they still hold their own?! The fact that they won any money at all against a timing chip connected to a glorified research bot is the real news here.
I’ve got a computer in my phone that dwarfs most people’s ability to calculate or organize data. I’m supposed to be impressed that IBM made one super-duper fast? Puleeeze, the knowledge (and access) those two men have is staggering.
BTW, I’m quite sure the machine can define the word “win” in twelve different languages, but I bet it has no self-referent knowledge of what a phyrric victory is…
February 16, 2011 — 2:17 pm
Greg Swann says:
> The more I watched, the more impressed I was with the humans (especially Ken).
Me, from The Politics of Dancing:
February 16, 2011 — 4:18 pm
Meg Hurtado says:
Hilarious, as ever.
February 17, 2011 — 4:10 pm