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Calling a system "bigger steamroller" is easy and may make one sound cool, but actually designing and making one that is as good as Watson is hard, much harder
by asknemo 16y ago
Calling a system "bigger steamroller" is easy and may make one sound cool, but actually designing and making one that is as good as Watson is hard, much harder than non-engineers will believe, and such attempts often give more insights than mere paper-logic and debates IMHO. Ability to entertain drastically different ideas is a feature of great minds.
- grandalf 16y agoIt is definitely a hard engineering problem, but a fundamentally different one than engineering something that thinks, since the goal in this case is simply to answer jeopardy questions correctly. As Eliza demonstrates, simply doing something that seems "smart" is often nearly trivial.