Documentary, PBS NOVA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837301/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDLd1HUjxY
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html
Excerpts:
It used to be the case that intelligence was chess, right?
If you can play chess, that's intelligence.
Computers has mastered the game.
Chess is easy for computers
because the rules are very well defined and very clear.
The rules of chess are relativerly simiple.
A board of 64 squares.
each piece, pawn, knight, queen -- can move a certain way,
and there's a single goal - take out your opponent's king.
For humans its the ultimate game of strategy.
The way a computer play chess is not at all the way people play chess.
For the 25 years Doug Lenat has been leading a team
trying to create humanlike intelligence
by teaching a computer common sense, rule by rule.
The program is called CYC, and at headquarters
the wall ware covered with logid diagrams.
So far the CYC has 6 million rules, ...
Machine Learning: (learning from pattern feeded by previous examples)
... but without machine learning, he wouldn't stand a chance.
Machine learning isn't just important for Watson.
It's driving a revolution in computing.
It plays a major role in computer models that predict the weather days in advance.
And all those recommendations you get from Amazon or Netflix?
Alex Waibel fed a computer millions of examples
of English text, together with their translations,
into about a dozen different languages.
Now he's got a programs that can run on your phone or iPod.
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