How IBM’s Watson Is Mastering Knowledge
These videos describes IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system and how this technology was used to answer questions on Jeopardy, a television quiz show. They also discuss how Watson can be used to improve decision making. Watson’s capabilities are now a major part of IBM’s product strategy.
First video:
Second video:
Questions:
1. According to the first video, what are the four steps that humans follow when seeking to understand a situation and make a decision? Are these the steps you followed when deciding to take this discipline ? Or when you chose your last vacation destination?
2. Why is Watson different from traditional computer programs?
3. What is the “corpus of knowledge” of a field or domain that Watson needs to work?
4. How do humans train Watson to make the right decision?
5. Was playing Jeopardy a good way to test machine intelligence? Why or why not?
6. Is Watson a good example of a computer system demonstrating intelligence similar to that of a human?
7. Suggest some other applications for Watson.