Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Monday, February 21, 2011
News: Forget Watson: Chatting Computers Are Still Dumb
http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/14/forget-watson-chatting-computers-are-still-dumb
All about chatterbot FAIL ;) Interesting logs of chat sessions.
Friday, February 18, 2011
News: No actors. Just robots. Call this a play?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2011/jan/28/no-actors-robots-play-theatre
quote: "Hello Hi There, by director Annie Dorsen. It features no actors at all – live or onscreen – but instead two "chatbots", computers endowed with conversational programs and set to have a conversation with one another."
quote: "Hello Hi There, by director Annie Dorsen. It features no actors at all – live or onscreen – but instead two "chatbots", computers endowed with conversational programs and set to have a conversation with one another."
Thursday, February 17, 2011
News: DIY chatbot speaks
New Scientist (blog)
The chatbot can even dock with a charging station at the touch of a button, though Lee admits that hacking the iRobot's charger to also power the netbook ...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
News: Teaching computers how we feel
From Reuters: "A team at a British university is trying to teach computers ... the ability to assess how the person using it, feels."
Friday, February 11, 2011
News: IBM Watson on Jeopardy
More than just a chatbot?
IBM Watson
Countdown to Jeopardy!
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/countdown-to-jeopardy.html
"The IBM Challenge will pit the two greatest champions in the show’s history against a computing system that will rival their ability to deliver a single, precise answer to a Jeopardy! clue."
Jeopardy! And IBM Announce Charities To Benefit From Watson Competition
Competition to air February 14, 15 and 16
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33373.wss
"Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, was built by a team of IBM scientists who set out to accomplish a grand challenge – build a computing system that rivals a human’s ability to answer questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence. The Jeopardy! format provides the ultimate challenge because the game’s clues involve analyzing subtle meaning, irony, riddles, and other language complexities in which humans excel and computers traditionally do not."
IBM's Watson: 1. Human Jeopardy Contestants: 0.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375791,00.asp
"Game show pundits have noted, however, that Watson's strategy in Jeopardy as-a-whole could give the machine a natural advantage over its human competitors. As the saying goes, "The only winning move is not to play," and that's exactly what Watson does if it can't formulate a highly probable answer to a given Jeopardy question: It doesn't guess."
IBM Watson
Countdown to Jeopardy!
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/countdown-to-jeopardy.html
"The IBM Challenge will pit the two greatest champions in the show’s history against a computing system that will rival their ability to deliver a single, precise answer to a Jeopardy! clue."
Jeopardy! And IBM Announce Charities To Benefit From Watson Competition
Competition to air February 14, 15 and 16
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33373.wss
"Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, was built by a team of IBM scientists who set out to accomplish a grand challenge – build a computing system that rivals a human’s ability to answer questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence. The Jeopardy! format provides the ultimate challenge because the game’s clues involve analyzing subtle meaning, irony, riddles, and other language complexities in which humans excel and computers traditionally do not."
IBM's Watson: 1. Human Jeopardy Contestants: 0.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375791,00.asp
"Game show pundits have noted, however, that Watson's strategy in Jeopardy as-a-whole could give the machine a natural advantage over its human competitors. As the saying goes, "The only winning move is not to play," and that's exactly what Watson does if it can't formulate a highly probable answer to a given Jeopardy question: It doesn't guess."
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