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I like how IBM does very elaborate marketing ploys to hype their wares: like Deep Blue competing against Kasparov and Watson competing against Jennings to showc
by dpflan 9y ago
I like how IBM does very elaborate marketing ploys to hype their wares: like Deep Blue competing against Kasparov and Watson competing against Jennings to showcase IBM's engineering prowess. But it does sell the idea pretty well I think, but perhaps the idea is too grand/far ahead of the present.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoDeep blue was just a brute force machine. Perhaps Watson isn't much different, just slightly smarter.
- sgt101 9y agoWatson that won Jeopardy was a fantastic advance in information retrieval. Google introduced the knowledge graph a year later, but domain (jeopardy) specific watson was terrific. The sad thing is that they got captured by PR rather than sense; a focus on customer service and my bet is that they could have disrupted Oracle/Seibel out of 75% of accounts. IBM would be ridin' high! BTW. This is still on the table for IBM if they are prepared to invest 18mths and focus gung ho on Oracle. In 18mths it won't be as "other players" will have moved, like Sauron, to hit this market.
- zone411 9y agoSaying something like this does a big disservice to IBM's real accomplishment. Code a brute force chess engine, add some alpha-beta pruning, transposition table, or even some of your heuristics and let us know how it does. Just because it's not an adversarial RNN or whatever, it doesn't mean it's brute force.