Have you heard of that computer on Jeopardy? Well its name is Watson, and it is the brain child of IBM's David Ferrucci. Watson represents a pinnacle in "deep analytical programming" because it has the capability of processing unstructured data and interpreting human language. Hopefully, this is one step closer towards an affordable robotic vacuum system that changes its own bags (bagless perhaps?). That is just a pipe dream.More seriously, it has applications for interpreting knowledge based industries and doing the jobs of people. Imagine if a computer could scan through millions of medical textbooks, and interpret the meaning with as much accuracy as a human. It would mean the computer could understand subtleties in human speech and derive meaning from words rather than 1s and 0s. Finding a job just became more difficult.
On another note. How boring is watching a computer beat people at Jeopardy? Really boring. I mean seriously, computers are already smarter than humans. When I have a question about something, I type it directly into Google. The answer is usually in the top 5 pages. Whoop dee dooo!
Now they just have to solve the meaning of life. Let a computer mull that one over.
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