[Web4lib] Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential implications for libraries?)

[Robert Balliot]

 So, if AI is represented by having tremendous knowledge, how is that any
different from being Marvin?   How is that any different from being an
encyclopedia?

The depression and irony of Marvin the
robot<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxp1AqWleT4>is having  tremendous
knowledge without imagination, without inspiration.

Imagine having a brain the size of a planet.  That is because you can
*imagine*.

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm





On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 10:59 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote:
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> > So, I wonder what question Watson would associate with the answer 42.
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> "How many roads must a man walk down?", obviously.  Sounds meaningful
> without actually committing us to anything.
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> I expect the future Watson will sit around the library's staff lounge,
> complaining, "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me
> 'Where's the bathroom?'  Call that job satisfaction?  'Cause I don't."
>
>
> --
> Thomas ("All roads lead to THHGttG") Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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