NOT Watson and Jeopardy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:01:32PM -0500, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> On Thursday, CBC will be airing a documentary called "Remote Control
> War" which looks into the current and near-future state of the
> militarization of AI.
> 
> <http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/archive/2011/02/21/new-documentary-on-predators-and-other-uavs-fighting-a-remote-control-war-to-air-on-thursday.aspx>
> 
> Trailer at: <http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/video.html?ID=1775629745>
> 
> I look forward to conversation about this in light of Watson's achievement.

Why?  Watson is not an AI, and never claimed to be as far as I know.

Now AI is neat, but not really at all the same thing.

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Len Sorensen
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