Robots?!
So I’m sure there are at least a few other people who went out of their way to watch and DVR the Jeopardy event with the IBM super computer named Watson. I know I did and I was sitting there ready to attack at any malfunction or sign of incompetence from the computer that was battling human beings.
The only thing was, the computer did really good. Like REALLY good. Watson blew Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the most successful Jeopardy players ever, out of the water and then some. The final scores after the event were Rutter: 21,600, Jennings: 24,000, and Watson: 77,147. The two humans combined score is a little over half of Watson’s score.
Smart-man Ken Jennings knows who is about to take control...
This event from IBM and Jeopardy may very well be the beginning of our future. The successful showing of the super computer has serious potential. The entire time this three day event played all I could think about was 2001: A Space Odyssey. People over 40 years ago had the right idea; super computer = super trouble.
Or let us look at the Terminator series. A super computer system (Skynet [Watson?]) makes advancements and becomes self-aware and trys to destroy and take over the world with fellow robots.
Jennings showed his true intelligence by doing something far greater than his 72-day run on Jeopardy, he submitted to the computers. People may laugh at that now, but when they do take over and Ken Jennings is given some sort of power, people won’t laugh then.
If all goes to the plan of the computers and robots, Christian Bale could end up being out last hope of a resistance. But be careful though, don’t walk around without his permission (careful, he gets really angry and says lots of bad words.).
After watching last week’s showing on Jeopardy, I think we might have to consider changing all Terminator related movies, articles, and books into the nonfiction section soon…
But don’t worry, the IBM challenge with Watson was for charity.
