IBM's Watson Hired For His First Real Job

If he buys weapons with his first paycheck then we'll know he definitely plans to become Skynet.

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"Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
Tell them firmly:
I am not paid to listen to this drivel.
You are a terminal boob." - William S. Burroughs

Can somebody please hook Watson up to the Senate and House voting records so we can shove politicians' lies in their faces in seconds?

@Onihikage,

Now THAT's an idea!

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"Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
Tell them firmly:
I am not paid to listen to this drivel.
You are a terminal boob." - William S. Burroughs

This is the kind of machine that can gather data on its own at mind bending speed, and make solid suggestions that are truly the "Best way to go". So much so that a hospital as placed the lives of humans in its mechanical hands.

So I suggest another job for dear Mr. Watson:

Have it scour the internet for every news article, report, inventory, public opinion poll, etc. and devise a system of government that "The American People" ACTUALLY want, with representatives that make decisions that the "American People" ACTUALLY want. I believe this is the only way to go since no one single person can POSSIBLY serve the interests of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or Millions of citizens. Our system of government was devised to govern 13 colonies with approximately 75-100,000 people. Not 50 states with 33 million.

Do that Watson, and our country MIGHT be saved from the same fate as ancient Rome.

~S

Have Watson analyze the Internet and come up with a list of possible next presidents of the USA, UN, EU etc.
Have Watson analyze the lotto numbers patterns : if there are no patterns than randomness has been found.
Have Watson estimate the chances to develop cancer, AIDS ( 0 if you are careful ) , Parkinson etc.

wow.. i think we're now in robotic era where the artificial intelligence have a power...

@seatellite

<-------Agrees!

I think IBM screwed it up. They programmed it with three major flaws.

One was it uses internet searches.

Two it was created to beat a game show.

Three is was never programmed to give weighted numbers to phrases. Instead they focused on giving it weighted numbers to single words and then tried to associate it's confidence level to the matching words in the search. They should have used phrases with weighted results.

www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/google_will_be_your_new_government/
-Spouting a fountain of nonsense since 1995-

Although a powerful super computer has the ability to solve problems by computing mathmatical statistics at an a remarkable speed, it lacks the human mind, heart, and the wisdom of trial and error. Their are several movies that have a depiction of all of the reasons why you should always have a plan in the event that technology made by humans can make a mistake as one.

Use watson to analyze everything pertaining to the debt problems, job issues and recommend solutions to get our government back on track. . . . well, it may decide no politicians and that wont be allowed. Still, Watson can probably do quite a bit of work. . . I hope they apply him to matters of government. If Watson can slam some solid statistical advice in peoples faces then maybe they wont have to argue so much. Let Watson play referee in the Senate.

I want my iphone to have a Watson. A watson app that can wirelessly tap into its mega brain. Some sci fi series I use to read had that. Every person on earth was granted a phone with a super watson like mind in it providing knowledge to every person as a Human Right equal to food and water.

The first computer I learn to program on was an IBM mainframe. With that being said, GO IBM! WELL DONE!