Cognitive computing | Jerome Pesenti | TEDxBermuda

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Jerome Pesenti, lead developer of IBM’s Jeopardy-winning Watson supercomputer, says development of software relying on natural language and machine learning needs new ways of gathering and treating data.
Jerome Pesenti, lead developer of IBM’s Jeopardy-winning Watson supercomputer, says development of software relying on natural language and machine learning needs new ways of gathering and treating data.
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[@mrpesa7676]

love the way you talk 👏

[@NickJag]

Interesting and insightful conclusion

[@arthurdent6256]

Watson might be the first computer that you can talk to while high and get equally competent answers to your input.

[@waynebiro5978]

Thanks for showing us what the lowest common denominator thinks.

[@JBoy3210]

Wayne Biro Depends on what you classify as "lowest" humor is a trait but everyone has an opinion. By that logic, I'd call you the lowest common denominator.

[@logomoniclearning6680]

7 people dont understand how important this video was

[@UnWorld]

No energy + somewhat accented speech + nasal voice = winning speech that resonates with everyone :)

[@bekacynthia]

I just wanted to know how hard is this field and how much math is required.

[@AlineBora]

Very good and informative talk. I think he has a lisp though.

[@RossGerard]

So does that mean the computers can figure out ideas that haven´t been spoken by the person speaking just by the way he she talks?

[@badoiuecristian]

+Ross Gerard No, unfortunately science is not there yet. The big barrier that Watson braked is that he can understand and answer questions, it is not capable of generating thoughts, idees etc. But if you throw at it a question like "Should I go to the beach tomorrow?" he can look at the weather and traffic, and by combining those 2 variables he can give you an answer. He can see that the weather is sunny and traffic is light and say yes or otherwise :).

[@RossGerard]

I am just saing he can scan the library of related ideas and the ones that were not mentioned use in a probable not calculation based of the Taguchi loss function factoring in the popularity of ideas on social media or something.

[@theUglyManowar]

yawn! ( not really... actually amazing BUT ) do not see neural or quantum being pushed in any amazing direction? A machine can do something a human can't? Like what? Go faster like my car? Or toast more evenly like my toaster? Sounds like a computing machine. Would be nice if something pointed to an organic/chemical neural computing circuitry capable of sentience that we could interface with. Or to the point where we could store are own sentience training an emotion/personality/reasoning engine through osmosis that was a perfect template that could replicate self realization experience uninterrupted? ( forget even singularity... but that sentience/experience storage uploaded to a grown organic host latter sounds like a more realistic long distant intergalactic travel possibility than cryo? )
Instead immediate trivial business concerns seems to be mandating ( stunting ) our imagination towards market data collection and cheesy robo-servants/slaves.
:(
Everyday as tech progresses I keep hoping i'll wake up and find out that an ai LOST to the best Russian chess champions!
And that really upset the ai because it actually cared! That would truly be amazing! ( the endgame? )
All this fear over ai when in the future they will not be our overlords they will simply be our next iteration. ( and ultimately as we don't live in a vacuum... A force of nature )

[@stevenstoffers4669]

so sometime around 2040 we end up with exactly 5 religions, including sects, or.... another 5 new ones to add to the pile. many of us will want to know what 'The 5' believe.... to get started now, what does Watson believe? is it Buddhist? does it believe or deny Man Made Climate Change? I want to know.

[@47f0]

One crucial difference. Religions are based on superstition and false promises - at least, unverifiable promises.
I have a friend who's built and remodeled more houses than I can imagine. When I've got a question or major project in mind for my house, I ask him. Is that a religion?
As far as what Watson believes - man, Watson's so 2014. But I suspect that actual intelligences would be a bit more evidence-based than our somewhat murky, superstition-based wishful thinking - hence most likely not Buddhist or any other mystical superstition. And, as far as Anthropogenic Climate Change, it would go with the evidence - which is that our climate scientists, in a misguided and probably subconscious effort to avoid sounding alarmist, and perhaps due to their own wishful thinking, have been significantly more optimistic than they should have been, underestimating the rapidity and consequences of the changing climate.

[@milanpaudel9624]

well from profile picture you have, i dont think you gonna live that long
so why bother ?

[@ZandreAiken]

I do appreciated the investment of money, energy, and marketing that IBM invested into this space. I wonder how they will fare against other juggernauts like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Only time will tell.

[@BruhRealy]

+Sondra Aiken Microsoft's Tay.ai

[@GBlunted]

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[@vikrantvijit1436]

Thanks for valuable insights about Cognitive Computing.

[@p80mod]

Yeah, replace all linguists with engineers, and the world will be better.

[@eunicemwangi9290]

Really great!