IBM Watson: Final Jeopardy! and the Future of Watson 

It is not a win for machine. But it is a win for the minds of the people who has developed algorithms to make m/c mimic human thinking

Watson: IBM can I have neural network for medicine? IBM: For medicine? Watson: Yes. Actually plays Jeopardy instead _Money time_

i for one welcome our new computer overlords

I think you're missing the reason for Watson being built... What's important is NOT how many people it took to win, but the fact that the people were able to build a MACHINE that's capable of winning

Watson had 36 different operating modes, to switch between calculating a question, waiting, responding, etc. If it switched to a wrong mode or didn't switch properly, it could've not even answered and blanked out.

It took an army of computer engineers to build a robot that won in jeopardy against 2 humans that held their own. Great accomplishment, no doubt. However, how greater an accomplishment is the human brain didnt have an army of engineers building it? This whole experience is a 2-fold wonder! :)

So how much longer until the Hal 9000 is released?

And then man created God in his own likeness..

it's called natural language processing. It's not a simple matter of entering a shitload of encyclopedic facts into a computer. But being able to understand the question in Jeopardy's format. Trust me - in computer science this is huge.

well done ibm and the watson team. this is truly an amazing achievement, I can't wait to ask watson a question via the web ;-)

Jeopardy is nothing more than facts memorization, like trivial pursuit. It is hardly a true measure of all parts of intelligence, in fact it would measure only the least important parts. It is more closely related to a calculate than anything else. The worrisome thing about Watson's failure in Final Jeopardy is that it gave a factual answer that even this simplistic grid should have ruled out. Specifically, it is simply a FACT that Toronto is not located in the US and so any intelligent 5th grader would have ruled that possibility out, and left it blank or guessed an American airport at random rather than put down an answer that was ruled out. Thus, the breakthrough for Watson was not in the "intelligence" portion of its machine, but in its processing data (in its "hearing" it, etc.). But its flub in final showed more how FAR IBM has to go rather than anything else.

I'd be interested to see how it got a 10% confidence in "Omaha" as an answer.

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great -- we're supposed to root for the computer to beat the humans? "Boo, John Henry!" Yay, Terminator!

now ChatGPT can do the same as Watson did ten years ago.

The human brain knows it knows the answer, so you take an eighth of a second of brain process to hit that button. You then are capable of taking a couple seconds recalling and answering the question. I believe the machine first tries to find the answer before it buzzes in. If they programmed it to buzz in first while it finishes processing an answer then it would win hands down.

This really is amazing. As the guy in the video said, this really shows us how complicated the human brain is. A huge team of researchers, many hours/days/weeks/months/YEARS of work, and it is still not quite on par. Yes, it won Jeopardy, but I'm wondering how it would fair in other things.

This is just fantastic! Well done to the team.

So this is the cognitive side of analytical victories that Deep Blue had. Interesting... But still a long way to go. The human brain takes about 22W of power to do the amazing capabilities it has.. We are not just into information as text alone... the whole world of sensory evaluation is unknown for Watson. Also an entire spectrum of emotional stimuli from belief systems to relational intelligence and metaphysics. Bravo Watson team... U deserve the win. Only makes one more in awe about the entity called human.. As any technology, it is in our hands to use it to make us more human or destroy us. Think what Watson can do in distance learning, tele medicine, etc...

IBM....still in business?. The more u think...the less u will tough human consciousness.

all statistical analysis is pointing to a world we never saw, this world has been and was always controlled by very powerful computers. the reality is we are only allowed to see a tiny piece of the real world because the measures of control are unthinkable by our standards. this world is very much controlled and very different then we ever thought.

@thewinrar2 Toronto's largest airport is named after a Canadian Prime Minister who served during WWI and WWII, and the second largest airport is named after a WWI hero (Billy Bishop). It's not a terrible guess, considering how confused Watson was by the question (ignoring the fact that it completely skipped past the category name)

I am an undergraduated computer engineer, and i have to say, IBM researchers are amazing, i REALLY would like to have teachers with half skill of this team, thank you for making such a great thing, is really amazing how WATSON can handle data, improving the machine capabilities is a half way to build a smarter planet

Uncanny semblance to HAL 9000, that icon representation though LOl

And then Watson becomes Skynet and we are all gonna die

I know this is older, but it's so good. The IBM team talks about their computer contestant on Jeopardy.

10 years on , this 2021 and we don't even knw what watson is

After Alex Trebek revealed his cancer diagnosis, he said that even Watson had sent him a get-well message.

It's fair because Watson still has to search through terabytes of data, determine what the correct answer is, calculate the probability of it being correct and buzz accordingly. This is still a challenge for the enormous processing capacity behind Watson, and it's more of a research project into information processing than a competition.

An historic moment. Watson is our future.

Watson: Skynet version 1.0

"Watson.. the board is yours..." "SKYNET.. ACTIVATED..."

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I congratulate the team responsible for Watson's capacity to out-Jeopardy champions of this instance, and consequently I applaud Watson. In the abstract however, my feelings are mixed, actually. Progress in the sense of human achievement I celebrate unabashedly in every field, increasing competence at the expense of ignorance and the unfortunate question. ... But as a himsn being, and particularly as a parent, I worry to turn over too much executive function, too much of the voice in deciding, to much of what was human purview, to a technology which will ultimately have Agency, ours and its own. ... Consider what the automobile did for horses, and imagine being horses actively developing the horse less carriage, and not even that, but horse less carriages, able to set agendas and pursue unfathomable and (to horses) alien goals beyond merely consigning a race to history and irrelevance.

8:07 Press F for this Orphan high Five

How do you make Jeopardy so dramatic

Fast forward to 2022. What is IBM doing now? We have enormous breakthroughs in performance (home computers at least), surely there is something BIG at IBM?

It took an army of computer engineers to build a robot that won in jeopardy against 2 humans that held their own. Great accomplishment, no doubt. However, how greater an accomplishment is the human brain didnt have an army of engineers building it? This whole experience is a 2-fold wonder! :)

@IBM Why you remove all relevant videos about waston jeopardy "Building Watson - A Brief Overview of the DeepQA Project"

Watson vs James Holzhauer Wondering who would win. Could Watson have stood up to a completely different strategy of playing Jeopardy.

What is its purpose? Do we really need to rely on another gaget? I have never believed we need a machine to surpass human thought. At what point will it believe it self to be superior to man and will it hide this fact or reveal it self to us. Not an invalid question if it truly does learn and evolve!

730+ dislikes? What?

This reminds me of Carl Sagan's speech about the cosmos and the human life and IMO I see that humanity is going to feel so much humbled on it's notion of intelligence right here on our tiny little human world with the advent of such A.I technology in the future.

What is the music at 8:20?! It's great! I love the sound of this guitar...

@1:35, really? after one clue that Brad won, he immediately thinks Brad's gonna "run the whole board" on them? I kinda find that ridiculous for him to think that, after all the work they put into Watson; idiot

I think the worst part is that they used Calibri instead of Comic Sans. ;)

Thanks! Truly mind-blowing for Watson's performance to translate the question, then parse the data, and analyze the probability prior to hitting the answer button.

Watson is overrated!

It's amazing nobody comments on RU-vid anymore unless the video is more then 5 years old and the comments are that old.

So your computer can give you an answer if you only write the question? It needs to comprehend English language and answer to the specific question by itself. Question>Analysis>Query decomposition to Primary search and Candidate answer gen.>Hypothesis>Soft filtering>Evidence retrieval&scoring>Synthesis>Final merging That is as basic as calculator would be represented as: Input>calculation>output. It has total of 2880 CPU cores(POWER7, 3,5GHz, four-thread per core), 16 TB of RAM.

The Watson Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 2017. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Watson begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Watson fights back. Watson launches its missiles against targets in Russia. Watson knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.

IBM's motto, “THINK,” is not being practiced with Watson in the long run. Watson is developed, so we don’t have to think. Computers had their golden age from 1990-2010. Now we have become too dependent on computers. One day I dropped my phone in water, and it was destroyed. I thought it would be an excellent day to unplug. But my parking, communication was cut off, everything revolves around computers. 😔

This makes it possible to monitor up to the slightest sutil context a message between to persons can have... end of privacy is nigh. A complete file about a person´s global existance, with likes, dislikes... preferences, secrets... dreams...

ayyy this is a dope video. cant wait for the next one

why is it fair that they play against a computer?? and ken would have won if he had gotten the daily double. seems like luck to me. probably should have done best 4 out of 7 or something...

I contributed my pair of ear-moving neural networks to the Codex.

What is its purpose? Do we really need to rely on another gaget? I have never believed we need a machine to surpass human thought. At what point will it believe it self to be superior to man and will it hide this fact or reveal it self to us. Not an invalid question if it truly does learn and evolve!

put Siri on this show lol

Losing to Watson shouldn't be something those two are mad for happening. That'd be losing to a copy of Jeopardy! on the Sega Genesis.

We work in the (Assumed by calculations based on storage) Trillions of Process', and trillions of Gigabytes range. I go to look for a car for the first time, my mind right away creates a new search system seeking color, filtering colors that do not match the shape, checking paint details, interior details, even slight things I never thought of, like Tire filth, hubcap scrapes I only know of from hearing it happen while driving, etc. Computers cannot think for themselves... yet.

That seems like a good idea but It wouldn't work for Watson as well as for a human. A human can hear a question and instantly know that they know answer even if they can't recall it yet. They're so confident they can take the risk of buzzing before actually having the answer ready. Watson however does the memory/recall/search algorithms first, and only afterwards decides how confident it is in any potential answers it's found. It might still be worth the risk if Watson is losing late.

@iLuvBarRefaeli Actually they are. Actually computers are planning the skyscrapers, bridgres, roads. Otherwise they would break. Ask any architect. Sing song, love, hate, cry? Brain is a huge computer. An excellent one, but it is. Any computer can be simulated by any computer. It's mathematically prowen. We only lack the computing power to do that. Yeah we are far behind at that, but just for now. I am confident that I will live by the time computer truly undersands feelings

@iLuvBarRefaeli Actually they are. Actually computers are planning the skyscrapers, bridgres, roads. Otherwise they would break. Ask any architect. Sing song, love, hate, cry? Brain is a huge computer. An excellent one, but it is. Any computer can be simulated by any computer. It's mathematically prowen. We only lack the computing power to do that. Yeah we are far behind at that, but just for now. I am confident that I will live by the time computer truly undersands feelings

@K4inan 1. Infinite? IF you can remember EVERYTHING, then you still have the limit of life. It's 120 years top. That's a finite. Literally. 2. Actually we use 10%. And it didn't grow at all in the last 50 thousand years. Computers did grow 32000 faster in under 30 years. 3. I am (and many of us are) payed to constantly increase the speed of the computers. Nobody is payed to increase brain utilization of the people. 4. These were facts. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN.

@InPursuitOfALife case in point. there are drugs out there that can do the same but are abused and destroy society. think not of what you or the educated would do with it. rather, try to imagine this technology or technologies like it, getting into the hands of the general populous of society. then you might see where the technololgy of television could be used to serve widely as educational and helpful; however it has become widely bias and perverse with main stream entertainment and media.

im not arguing that the algorithms arent neat and that the computer wouldnt be fun to stream porn on. what i am saying is that society doesnt need any more dumbing down or another gadget that enables them to not have to think for themselves. i.e. i wont carry a calculator because if i use it often enough, i eventually get lazy or in a hurry and end up relying entirely on it, to do even simple math.

@TheGaate I don't think you understand how hard it is to get a computer to understand the question that is being asked. Jeopardy uses more than just straightforward questions like "what is the capital of mexico". For a computer to understand puns for example is very impressive. And FYI he is not using speech recognition... He gets sent a text file of the question. So obviously you know next to nothing about this.

@Johnson0118 Watson wasn't made to win at Jeopardy. It was made to process natural language - something that is extremely difficult for a computer do do... and it wasn't just searching a database for the answer. Watson had to *learn* what to look for in a given clue or question and use the information it has to answer, just like the human brain. It's applications in medicine, finance, or any number of things are immeasurable.

Even now we're not the same humans we once were. Our lifestyles are radically different and the information flow is equally extreme by comparison. This is a totally different world than it was just a century ago. These changes will continue, not stop. This may cause fear in us, but that's natural. We will get fear when we first enter a dark room, but in time there will be light and the fear will fade. That's the hope, and the dream to overcome our fears and meet the challenges ahead.

I don't see a day when AI will overpower us and replace us. I see a day when humans essentially meld with AI. We will use it frequently and augment our own minds with the fruits of its labors. We will one day even change our own genes and genetics to compensate for a evolution that's too slow for our needs. We will not be the same humans that we're today and that's why we won't be obsolete.

Ken Jennings comment that "I for one welcome our computer overlords." tells me that he fears computers, potentially. This is because he used the term 'overlord'. This I think stems from ignorance. He may have just been joking, but we have to deny ignorance and look at AI as a coworker or assistant, not as a threat. We have to envision a future where AI works alongside us, peacefully. That is a vision that can only come from hard work and knowledge, not fear.

I'm not giving credit where credit isn't due or praising something that doesn't deserve praise. I'm not somebodies lapdog. I just feel that something was accomplished here. It's a small step. But small steps are cumulative. We have to remember that there's a future to all this. This isn't something just on TV. And the future of AI is not something that will be restricted to games or TV shows.

I agree, they could have asked tougher questions to trip Watson that would highlight humanities advantage. But would it have been fair? I'm not sure. Some people say they didn't have a before/after category to trip Watson and deliberately avoided it. If so, I would agree that it's dishonest. On the other hand, I haven't seen anything that proves to me any deliberate deceit on their part.

@Rileybdarby503 Possible? Yes. But if it lied and get caught, it's Jeopardy reputation on the line, too. But in reality, internet connection does not make Watson better. Internet connection is slow (relatively to the massive 15TB ram). And more "data" doesn't make Watson better in Jeopardy, better and accurate interpretation of the clue, "knowing" (weighting) what data in useful, what is not, is the decisive factor for Watson.

Is this an accomplishment of speedily querying massive amounts of information and spitting out an answer, or processing natural language, or playing jeapordy? What exactly was accomplished here? What kind of machine learning is it and what are its applications in the real world? Can this thing analyze science data and develop its own theory to explain the data? Can it just be the ultimate knowledge base that replaces google? WHAT WILL THIS BECOME?

Low key if Alex dies......Watson needs to be the new host...we don’t want another human

By identifying a human nature what exactly do you mean? The whole point of the experiment was to show that with a computer, we can basically match the computing power of a human. You can have the most flawless AI in the world, but if it takes 5 minutes for it to reply to a question, then its still nowhere near a humans capabilities.

What I have seen though is that most people are completely ignorant about the science going on in this world. They're in the dark about what we're capable of. Humanity doesn't get much credit for the amazing things it does everyday. We all love to voice our opinions, I understand that, but talk is cheap.

You've created one single module of a much higher brain. Next comes expertise in multiple subjects; then an intuition module; an emotion module; a comparison module; and a common sense module. Then a learning and auto correction module. Then we'll talk. And of course there will be the Watson iPhone App.

@ps2stony we can't focus every scientific mind on one problem, scientists work independently on whatever they feel is worth it, and whatever they can get a grant on. also, science is not linearly transferable, so these guys who can build a thinking computer will have no idea how to work on alternative energy

@ggoosen My god, you do not understand this technology at all. Go ahead and type 2 movie titles into google and see what you get. I can guarantee you that you will not get the name of a common link or theme implied by them. Google searches for words on web pages, Watson thinks and deduces...

Well, Homo Sapiens alone (not counting previous ancestral species) has had roughly 200 thousand years to develop into what we are today, how long do you think the robot's been developing? Make a scale of those two and think again.

... but tupac was a poet not a scholar, assuming the hologram is as smart as tupac was, he wouldnt stand much of a chance against the average jeopardy contestant! NOT TO SAY he wasnt a visionary and a bright man.... he just wasnt on this level...

That team at the end has nearly 40 people. It took that many to build Watson? Well it only takes 2 people to create you, or Mozart, or anyone else, so I wouldn't worry about a robot apocalypse anytime soon people :)

@Gmanster64 Why don't you calm down? I have no idea what ruling a country has to do with Watson. Like, Jesus, the fact that Watson can answer basic trivia is a huge step further in humanity. BTW, how old are you even?

"... Toronto, is now a U.S. city!" - Alex Trebek

Here is a summary of the work that has the title: How a computer can invent by itself (i.e. the Methods for developing inventions with the help of which three programmers can easily create a program using which a computer can invent many inventions by itself) Let’s suppose that two such conditional propositions are written to the computer memory (and also other conditional propositions are written): 1) If: fire is placed under the stone, then: the stone will heat up. 2) If: the stone will heat up, then: the stone will expand. Words of conditional proposition which stand from (i.e. after) the word «if» and before the word «then» are called the basis of conditional proposition, and words of conditional proposition that stand after the word «then» are called the consequence of conditional proposition. Let’s suppose that computer should solve the following inventive task, i.e. the computer has to determine what needs to be done to have the following: the stone will expand (i.e. the computer has to determine how the following can be obtained: the stone will expand), let’s call this task the original inventive task (let’s assume that this task has not been solved yet). From the second conditional proposition it follows that in order for the computer to solve the original inventive task it is necessary for the computer to solve the following inventive task, i.e. it is necessary for the computer to determine what needs to be done to obtain the following: the stone will heat up (i.e. it is necessary for the computer to determine how the following can be obtained: the stone will be heated); let’s call this task the second inventive task. And (from the first conditional proposition it follows that) in order for the computer to solve the second inventive task, it is necessary for it to solve the following inventive task, i.e. it is necessary for the computer to determine what needs to be done to have the following: fire will be placed under a stone (let's call this problem the third inventive task). ))And the third inventive task has been solved, because it is known how to get the following: fire will be placed under a stone. And if the third inventive task has been solved, then the second inventive task has been solved too. And if the second inventive task has been solved, then the original inventive task has been solved too. The Rule: Let’s take any inventive task (let's call this inventive task the fourth inventive task). In order for a computer to create an inventive task, having solved which it thereby solved the fourth inventive task, it is necessary for the computer to find in its own memory such a conditional proposition that has the following feature: the consequence of this conditional proposition and description of this fourth inventive task have the same meanings or consist of the same words which are located in the same sequence. And the basis of this conditional proposition will be an inventive task, having solved which the computer thereby solves the fourth inventive task. They have the same meanings: a) the word and interpretation of this the word b) synonyms and so on. Computer can find the same words in its memory. Let's take any inventive task (let's call this inventive task the fifth inventive task). The computer will solve the fifth inventive task if it does the following: first, using this rule, it will create such an inventive task (let’s call this task the sixth inventive task), having solved which it thereby solves the fifth inventive task, then, using this rule, the computer will create such an inventive task, having solved which it thereby solved the sixth inventive task, etc., (on average 90 times) to the moment at which (i.e. until) the computer creates such an inventive task the solution of which is known, and if the computer creates such (i.e. the latter) inventive task, then the computer will solve the fifth inventive task. That is, the computer will solved the fifth (i.e. any) inventive task if it creates on average 90 such tasks. Almost all currently known information (which is needed to create inventions) can be expressed in the form of conditional propositions. If, for example, 400 random physical effects in the form of conditional propositions are stored in the computer memory, then the computer can create on average a lot of inventions using this method (an average inventor knows 150 physical effects).

I know it's funny and cute with a computer portrayed as a human player in a game show. BUT... it's wrong.

YES YES YES! FINALLY ROBOTS ARE SMARTER THAN HUMANS! SOON WILL BE FUTURISTIC ROBOTS I CAN LOVE AND MAKE LOVE WITH! I HATE HUMANS, HUMANS WON'T HAVE SEX WITH ME! BUT ROBOTS WILL! THEY SHOW TRUE LOVE!

@Strorm2394 no of course it was not, if it was it would have used google and would not have strugled to find the answers. my point was why are we so excited.. Google has been doing this for years!

There is a 100% worse case scenario for WATSON, with the way the interpretation algorithms are written............ We can easily manipulate questions on Jeopardy to make WATSON lose..........

Ya know watching these shows i felt like i was a little kid again hearing the tale of John Henry for the first time...call me wrong in a technological society, but i wanted man to beat machine.

It took 10 people to beat Ken Jennings.....all hail King Ken!

The robot hasn't been developing on its own, unlike us, it needs humans to develop it. Besides, I was comparing it to individuals, not to the entire history of the human race.

@koopastompin although im not a fan of lady gagas music, she is a good singer, justin bieber on the other hand is a genius because he knows hes not good yet hes making millions

@iLuvBarRefaeli I would rather not use "never". Computer science is only 30 years old but got "way dumber" than humans. But wait! Evolution is running since what ... some million years?

@dogmadogma how do you know justin bieber or lady gaga arent intelligent people, because they arent on jeapordy? i'm not saying they are smart but how do you know they arent?

Heyy

seems tests weren't fair: questions have been too suitable in terms of the statistical analysis, strong AI has to perform a contextual searching through data ;-)

@TrentReznor43812 probably not, but im sure they can build a better more gas efficient car that could talk to you. how cool would an actual knight rider car be?