{"id":94420,"date":"2019-08-04T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-an-ai-pioneer-thinks-watson-is-a-fraud"},"modified":"2019-08-04T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T15:22:48","slug":"why-an-ai-pioneer-thinks-watson-is-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-an-ai-pioneer-thinks-watson-is-a-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Why an AI pioneer thinks Watson is a \u201cfraud\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-an-ai-pioneer-thinks-watson-is-a-fraud.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other gaming was that computers don\u2019t really understand words\u2026 So you ask, \u201cWho was the sixteenth president of the United States.\u201d? The computer doesn\u2019t know what \u201csixteenth\u201d and \u201cpresident of the United States\u201d mean. But it can go and rummage through Wikipedia-like sources and find those words and match them to a president, Abraham Lincoln and come back with \u201c\u2018Who\u2019 was Abraham Lincoln.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then you put anything in that\u2019s like a pun or a joke or a riddle or sarcasm, that you can\u2019t look up in Wikipedia, and computers are helpless. For example, in the first round, one of the final Jeopardy clues was, \u201cIts largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest for a World War II battle.\u201d And the correct answer was \u201cChicago.\u201d And Watson guessed \u201cToronto,\u201d apparently because it was confused in the second part of that sentence, what \u201cit\u201d referred to. And that is a common problem with computers. (<em>See:<\/em> Why did Watson think Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2019\/08\/why-did-watson-think-toronto-was-in-the-u-s-a\/\">was in the U.S.A.?<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Terry Winograd is a computer scientist at Stanford and he thought up this test of computer knowledge. The question is, \u201cWhat does \u2018it\u2019 refer to in this sentence?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other gaming was that computers don\u2019t really understand words\u2026 So you ask, \u201cWho was the sixteenth president of the United States.\u201d? The computer doesn\u2019t know what \u201csixteenth\u201d and \u201cpresident of the United States\u201d mean. But it can go and rummage through Wikipedia-like sources and find those words and match them to a president, Abraham [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}