Philosophy
During the industrial revolution, much of the manual labor that had hitherto been done by people was suddenly taken over by machines, who were faster, more accurate, cheaper, and didn't complain about safe working conditions, fair wages, paid sick days, maternity leave, holiday pay and so on, so they replaced people, who ended up losing their jobs.
Well, that's physical labor, we laughed, and thought that machines could never replace our raw brain power: we know how to think, how to reason, how to solve problems, how to calculate and compute, etc. Well, guess what? As Watson, the powerful IBM supercomputer proved a couple of years ago, you might not want to feel so confident that you have job security just because your job requires mental power... the machines are coming, and unlike the terminator who was shooting for John and Sarah Connor, these machines are shooting for your job!
In the following TEDTalks presentation, Ken Jennings, all-star Jeopardy champion, tells the story of his experience of being the best Jeopardy player of all time and getting beaten by a computer, and reflects on what this might mean for the future of humanity.
How long until your job is taken over by a computer?
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- Watson Wins On "jeopardy"
Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter A three day landmark battle between Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and Watson [an IBM computer] ended today with Watson winning. "Computer crushes the competition on 'Jeopardy!'" by Frazier Moore February 16th,...
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Philosophy
Ken Jennings - Watson, Jeopardy and Me
Well, that's physical labor, we laughed, and thought that machines could never replace our raw brain power: we know how to think, how to reason, how to solve problems, how to calculate and compute, etc. Well, guess what? As Watson, the powerful IBM supercomputer proved a couple of years ago, you might not want to feel so confident that you have job security just because your job requires mental power... the machines are coming, and unlike the terminator who was shooting for John and Sarah Connor, these machines are shooting for your job!
In the following TEDTalks presentation, Ken Jennings, all-star Jeopardy champion, tells the story of his experience of being the best Jeopardy player of all time and getting beaten by a computer, and reflects on what this might mean for the future of humanity.
How long until your job is taken over by a computer?
- Bullshit Or Not: Adam Smith Edition
There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, "In Search Of..." called, "Bullshit or Not?" with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." It's a line I like so much that...
- Thoughts On The Jeopardy Three Way
Interesting questions from dg,I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on last week?s Jeopardy 3-way tie. If you haven?t seen the game, two players were tied for second going into final jeopardy and the player in the lead (actually a Mt St Mary?s...
- K Computer...8.162 Petaflops
That translates to 8.162 quadrillion calculations per second for the Japanese K computer. It computes fast and is quite hungry for power...9.89 MW, which "...is roughly that of 10,000 houses and its annual running costs are US $10 million." With the...
- Watson Wins On "jeopardy"
Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter A three day landmark battle between Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and Watson [an IBM computer] ended today with Watson winning. "Computer crushes the competition on 'Jeopardy!'" by Frazier Moore February 16th,...
- Deceased--sir Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Wilkes June 26th, 1913 to November 29th, 2010 "Father of British computing Sir Maurice Wilkes dies" November 30th, 2010 BBC NEWS The "father" of British computing, Sir Maurice Wilkes, has died at the age of 97. Sir Maurice was the designer...