IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language.
And so, when IBM's famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a great idea. Humans created this repository of slang,
The Urban Dictionary. For example, today on the site, we learn that 'healthy gas' is "the gas (fart) produced from a person who has eaten healthy foods like cabbage, beans, broccolli, grains, or other high fiber, high carbohydrate foods."
Brown realized that this formalization of informal language might be a great way for Watson to understand the way real people communicate. So, he and his team, fed the whole thing into their AI.
But one problem. Informal language has a tendency to be dirty, nasty language. Its insults and cuss words, new names for gross old things, old names for gross new things, etc. And so, we learn from Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram, they had to delete all that human messiness from Watson's memory
Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bull" in an answer to a researcher's query.
Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.
Cats Rn't for everyone ..... it takes a certain kind of mentality and appreciation of all things stealthy,aloof and evil on a whole other level
dogs have owners , cats have a staff and don't let any one tell you cats can't be trained ...... it just takes a fair amount of patients and understanding how the gears turn in your cat's mind
lord knows it took me a good 3 months to break "Riley" (my B&W Tomcat) of a few bad habits he might of gotten away with at his ole home ..... but then of course, he had to teach me a few things as well ...... but to this day when he gets a wee bit big for his britches ...... all I have to due is put my finger in front of his mouth and remind him that hes got one shot to bite and or claw me to the 101 million pieces or I was gonna have to take him behind the garage for a severe beating
most curious post at neatorama yet
IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language.
And so, when IBM's famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a great idea. Humans created this repository of slang,
The Urban Dictionary. For example, today on the site, we learn that 'healthy gas' is "the gas (fart) produced from a person who has eaten healthy foods like cabbage, beans, broccolli, grains, or other high fiber, high carbohydrate foods."
Brown realized that this formalization of informal language might be a great way for Watson to understand the way real people communicate. So, he and his team, fed the whole thing into their AI.
But one problem. Informal language has a tendency to be dirty, nasty language. Its insults and cuss words, new names for gross old things, old names for gross new things, etc. And so, we learn from Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram, they had to delete all that human messiness from Watson's memory
Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bull" in an answer to a researcher's query.
Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.
Cats Rn't for everyone ..... it takes a certain kind of mentality and appreciation of all things stealthy,aloof and evil on a whole other level
dogs have owners , cats have a staff and don't let any one tell you cats can't be trained ...... it just takes a fair amount of patients and understanding how the gears turn in your cat's mind
lord knows it took me a good 3 months to break "Riley" (my B&W Tomcat) of a few bad habits he might of gotten away with at his ole home ..... but then of course, he had to teach me a few things as well ...... but to this day when he gets a wee bit big for his britches ...... all I have to due is put my finger in front of his mouth and remind him that hes got one shot to bite and or claw me to the 101 million pieces or I was gonna have to take him behind the garage for a severe beating
to this day hes never tried anything LOL
http://makeanimatronics.com/
which reminds me of a curious and similer project I ran across a few and many square ago with eyes similer to what you suggested
http://www.pyroelectro.com/tutorials/animatronic_eyes/
this wins the bisquit LOL