Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Is Machine Smarter than Man?
Recently this week on Jeopardy, two of the most winningest men ever to play faced off against the super-computer named Watson. On a 30-question game board the two men only managed to answer 5 questions corectly between them in the Double Jeopardy round. One guy ended up with $4,800 and the other with $10,400. But Watson blew them out of the park with a whopping $35,374. That seems pretty ambarrasing to me. I don't know if that was the last show they will compete in, but hopefully the humans will have a chance to redeem themselves against the machine. So my thoughts are will man create a machine so intelligent that will eventually threaten man? An example that came to my mind is from the movie Terminator. I hope everyone has seen at least one of the Terminators to know what SkyNet is. But if not, it is a super-computer that pretty much wants to destroy all of mankind to us from ourseleves. Or something like that. If I'm wrong you may correct me.
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I think that this works into advancing technology and such, and that we should probably watch out for it. I really wonder why they put the computer on Jeopardy of all things though.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I'd have to know more about that computer.
ReplyDeleteI think it's a distinct possibility for the future that computers will be smarter than humans. I don't think human intuition can be artificial though. But I don't know that much about it.