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I couldn’t get through the first half hour of this show and this is officially the end of my time with no agenda. Adam is a FOOL, an absolute moron. His insistence on writing everything off as a scam and resorting to actually making fun of the was people speak to try and reduce them to children is pathetic to say the least. This show is garbage and people who waste their time listening to these two morons have to ask if that is the value they place on their own time.
I agree with the first post.
Adam’s new approach of immediately calling bullshit on EVERYthing, while that may be true, is preventing him from doing any of the deeper analysis found in earlier shows. And tell him to knock it off with the fucking voices!
Oh yeah, and he needs to quit interrupting John in the middle of every sentence. It’s super annoying when John is making a good point to have him derailed EVERY time by Adam. Especially when he’s essentially saying, “Oh John, it’s all bullshit! Why are you trying to analyze it?”
Dangerous ground for the shows, guys. Keep it together.
They’re not that bad. I have the same feelings, when I hear a talk radio host make outlandish statements, and I know beyond a doubt the statements are wrong.
I suggest Adam go back to smoking joints.
Listen to him on Howard Stern last year:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9MxzZhNe8aM
Such a calm guy! He needs to be more like this on No Agenda. Seriously.
Um, Adam, you obviously don’t know a thing about AI.
It really didn’t help that you obviously hadn’t seen the earlier episodes and did not know a thing about:
– how they were feeding the Watson system the questions,
– how the system was feeding back to the game,
– how it was searching through memory to create associations between words and memes,
– how the data was stored and organized (it used something by the Apache Foundation and everything was stored in a terabyte of RAM.)
Okay, that last bit was the product of doing some research on my part. The First three points were well covered during the first two shows, on Monday and Tuesday.
Actually, it seemed that you had merely come in half way through the last show, knew nothing about the work that went into it, what it was about and were pulling the same kind of manipulated media crap you always accusing Fox fuckin’ news of.
Basically, that was a really inept piece of journalism and you just blew your credibility. I now believe and trust you about as much as I trust my local Fox or ABC, CBS or NBC News, which is not at all.
The tirade about Jeopardy was as inept a ploy for feedback as I have ever heard.
I was an AI researcher and what IBM was trying to prove with the Jeopardy play was that they could make a language understanding system.
They are teaming up with Nuance to put a speech-to-text front-end with Watson so that it will answer phones, instead of shipping those jobs overseas.
The problem is that this is not necessarily good news.
While this will stop the off-shore and on-shore out-sourcing, this will not result in more jobs at home. It will result in automating one of the last bastions of human understanding jobs, the call center.
On the plus side, there’s not going to be anymore “say or enter the number corresponding to your query, only to find out after a frustrating time yelling into the phone that the people creating the system had not thought of your question.
I bet neither you or John will read my text on the air on Sunday’s show.
msbpodcast. how bout you donate and force them to mention your points? at least no ones hatin on my art 😀
Toronto is not a U.S. city.
What was with the wagering algorithms? I’m shocked IBM is that bad at mathematics.
WATSON got its but whupped the final night.
I keep thinking IBM took part in choosing the answers so that WATSON could be tested in a variety of ways. The other nights WATSON was doing great.
Oh yeah one more thing. Remember Barcode tattoes of the holocaust where databased on IBM Computers. This healthcare play is freaky.
I put in a request for the free router Thanks guys.
That’s why there were all those question marks.
It didn’t fuckin’ know.
If its knowledge base had included any information enabling it to link WWII hero (O’Hare) and WWII battle (Midway,) it would have nailed it, but who knew O’Hare was a WWII hero. (Honestly, did you?)
It only had a terabyte of data. That’s really small compared to a human brain.
Its not like it could access the internet.
It was disconnected for the contest.
While it would seem to be a hampering move, not giving it access to the internet, it was actually an optimization move.
Internet searches while the game was happening would have slowed Watson down by several orders of magnitude, from latency and from the greater amount of data to correlate.
Watson proved its point, about natural language machine understanding, and that was all that was necessary.
In #7 nicktherat said: how bout you donate and force them to mention your points?.
I would love to but I’m an old, disabled, ex-project manager and I’m trying to survive on SSID.
The cost of living here in Noo Joyzee is such that I figure I’ll only be able to live here (or anywhere else,) for another two years.
Then I’m going to go to Trenton by AmTrack and go postal on [expletive deleted] fat ass, cause the property taxes are killing me.
sorry to hear that msb 🙁
One has to wonder if Watson could take the mountain of data the government is collecting and use it get some useful, if high intrusive, answers.
If it can, you also have to wonder how the government will react when it starts giving answers various people don’t want to hear.