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So, it will finally do something useful.
Let's hope Watson can figure out a way to make it all cheaper too!
The GOP has demanded that when asked about abortions, Watson should reply "Abortions are bad, MMMkay."
Artificial Intelligence, New era of Drones possessing AI to be deployed by 2017 to US carriers, British (I believe) surveillance system named Sky Net, new class of Drones being deployed in the US. Hmmmmmmm Not a conspiracy minded person, but.........
grrrrl4ever: I think I need to ADD SOME MORE INFO to your rightful paranoia!
Modern graphics cards have SOOOO MUCH horsepower that they can also used
to waaaaay speed-up machine vision for automatic target recognition and FULLY
automated fire-control using hardware-accelerated NEURAL NETS.
Ironically, the TERMINATOR movies gave those DARPA/Air Force scientists
SEVERAL IDEAS in WHAT and HOW to create fully automated hunter-killer
drones just like in the movie. In fact, you can now BLAME James Cameron
(Director and Visioneer of the Terminator movies) for the fact those ideas
are NOW coming to fruition. In fact, his movie designs and technical details
are actually WORKABLE and USEABLE for real-world use.
That metal endo-skeleton is a pretty workable design that would be IDEAL
as a super-soldier and soon the DOOM of humanity. Add in millions of
super-powerful graphics cards that could be networked together and
SKYNET is NO LONGER some abstract movie concept but IS NOW
A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY!
i prefer to think of AI as something more like EDI in the movie Stealth rather then a T-800 or T-1000 from the Terminator.
Computer systems that have the capability for such evil, would also have the same capacity for good and indeed, if you ever saw a SkY NET type AI, you would almost certainly see an AI that was on the opposite end of SKY NET's spectrum.
Add that to the fact that there are people at this vary minute working to make sure a nascent AI bent on destruction will never get the chance and you have a slightly brighter version of the future.
An AI need not do evil, no matter how great of an advantage it had over humans. Really, if you have not seen stealth, you should.. The AI in that movie is likely exactly like what you would see in real life.
So, that's what? Eight years till Best Buy has them for $899.95? Cool.
Then a year after that $199.95. Then a year after that they will be obsolete. !
In eight years Best Buy will follow in the foot steps of Circuit City....now maybe Amazon.
Doctors still talking about treament i.e.,after your're diagnosed.Why don't they program the bodies ability to fight cancer and then outside inputs that affect the immune sytem into the computer to help prevent cancer in the first place?????
They are working on it - there is a lot of research into "extremophiles": organisms that thrive in what once was thought unlivable environments (eg, deep underwater volcanic vents) - some of which can repair their own DNA... knowing how they do that could have enormous medical benefits. The rain forests may have that "keystone" chemical, or oceans, or the arctic... Who knows? they might find something like that on Mars. Stranger things have happened.
i thought they were already doing this a long time ago.
This is exciting. This is exactly the type of thing that Watson was hoped to do, and he'll (it'll?) get better and better at doing it as time goes on. This is very interesting article - thank you. :)
No doctors, lawyers, police?....No heated homes with furniture?....No hospitals, no interstate highway systems. No insurance companies, lumber companies or loggers? No schools, Universities or Colleges? No money, no Banks, no loans? No grocery stores, farms or farmers? No clothing, no frostbite, no colds no cancer? No aging, dying hair or facelifts? No joint replacements or surgeries of any kind EVER? No cars, trucks, buses, planes or trains? No.........vacations? No kids to rear, love or to teach responsibilities to? No weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, burials, grieving or enjoyment? No murder, rapes, robberies or identity thefts! No one sneaking across unneeded borders? No Football, Baseball, Soccer, Basketball or Olympic Games? No Putin, Mother Theressa, Mao, Hitlers or Lincolns?..........just a continuously, self-constructed, sentient, non-biological race which probably will end pollution and everything else developed by us and ..........us.
"The Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Westmed Medical Group will begin testing an application based on Watson's cognitive computing to help diagnose lung cancer and recommend treatment, IBM said."
Why waist time on a super computer by diagnosing lung cancer and recommending treatment why don't they use the time on the super computer for finding a cure for cancer?
Um not sure if the top 5 people actually READ the article. This sounds like progress. Man, multiple GOOD stories today, its about time. To many depressing news items.
Now, can you sue a supercomputer for misdiagnosis? Watson for Lawyers coming soon!
Duh, the point of a supercomputer is to try EVERY possible hypothetical solution and even make up new ones given certain parameters and properties. Obviously solutions it comes up with must be tested in real life, but the computer is not forcing a treatment on anyone.