[ExI] Oxford scientists edge toward quantum PC with 10b qubits.

[Dave Sill]

2011/1/28 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>

> Like finding the question to a strangely worded answer neither it nor
> anybody else on this planet had ever heard before?
>

That's exactly what Watson was designed and programmed to do. Make a machine
with no Jeopardy-specific programming that can be taught through verbal
human instruction to play the game, and that machine will almost certainly
pass the Turing Test. Watson isn't even close.


> I just have little patience with the "if a man does it then it's
> intelligence but if a machine does it then it's not" school of thought.
>

The key is learning and understanding. It doesn't matter if it's a man or a
machine, or if the machine is using one or more clever tricks. A machine
that plays one game brilliantly but has no ability to learn other games
isn't intelligent.

-Dave
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