The Beginning Of Watsons Career Essay

Neil Postman, a firm protester against technology, begins his argument in The Judgement of Thamus with a parable about a king rejecting an inventor who incorporates writing into their society; the king, Thamus, is steadfast in his belief that writing’s future burdens will outweigh its immediate success. Postman argues that technological discoveries change the way we think, manipulating our culture and our understanding of the world. He states that the primary difference between computers and humans is the ability to self-learn - but what happens when the human race conquers that barrier with technology? Artificial Intelligence is often referred to as the "field I would most like to be in" by researchers in other sciences (semanticscholar.org). It is not only prominent in subfields like reasoning and logic, but also in precise tasks like playing chess, proving theorems, and diagnosing diseases. The short-term benefits of Artificial Intelligence depend on who controls it, while the long-term benefits of Artificial Intelligence depend on if we can control it at all. When considering synthetic intelligence, I believe our outlook must be cautiously positive. As Postman suggests, the development of technology has significant advantages and disadvantages. Futurists believe AI will redefine the human world by enabling software’s ability to self-program and by minimizing the time it takes to solve a challenge. However, the safety issues and current jobs that will be replaced by

One of the hottest topics that modern science has been focusing on for a long time is the field of artificial intelligence, the study of intelligence in machines or, according to Minsky, “the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men”.(qtd in Copeland 1). Artificial Intelligence has a lot of applications and is used in many areas. “We often don’t notice it but AI is all around us. It is present in computer games, in the cruise control in our cars and the servers that route our email.” (BBC 1). Different goals have been set for the science of Artificial Intelligence, but according to Whitby the most mentioned idea about the goal of AI is provided by the Turing Test. This test is also called the

The book I chose to read was called ¨The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963¨ by Christopher Paul Curtis. Admittedly, I did quite enjoy some events that occurred throughout the story. No doubt that there were lots of quirky, hilarious moments that actually got me to chuckle quite a bit. Furthermore, there were also lots of historically accurate events that occurred throughout the book. On the contrary, though, there were also a couple of dull and fictional events throughout the story. Anyhow, I would have to say that this is quite and interesting book, and I would recommend it to others.

As I read through “A Logic Named Joe,” I kept thinking about asking Siri questions. It is remarkable how the story was written and its accuracy to today’s technology. The logics were all one big network just as we now have the internet which is a network of computers providing information to users as they type into a search engine. The part where the writer describes Joe as not being vicious like those robots that want to destroy the human race is interesting. In fact, Joe, computers, are not vicious they cannot differentiate right from wrong. You ask a question and it gives an answer, how you choose to use that information as an individual who can select right and wrong is the difference. What stood out for me was the use of technology for

It was a dark and gloomy night. Twins Scarlett and Autumn Watson were playing with their dollies, when they heard the front door slam open. Their mother, Klaire Watson, cried, "Zack is missing!" The twins didn't comment, but both proceeded to sob. Their mother wrapped them both in a comforting embrace.

After watching the video in class about a computer going to school, I was very fascinated and a little scared to be honest. The idea of a computer doing surgery on me did not sit right with me and I opposed the idea of a computer doctor then. However, after thinking about the possibilities of this new emerging technology I could not find the justification for opposing the idea of Watson being my doctor. My reasoning was that Watson is capable of storing far more medical information then any doctor on the planet, and will be able make rational, evidence based decisions without any biases in a shorter period of time. Not only would this save the consumer millions of dollars but more importantly it would save many lives. Watson would be far more

John B. Watson (1878-1958), not to be confused with John H. Watson from Sherlock Holmes’ fame, left an indelible mark on the field of psychology. Prior to Watson, psychologists and philosophers theorized about internal, or mental, processes and consciousness. Myers (2013) states, “Watson urged his colleagues to discard reference to inner thoughts, feelings, and motives” (p. 268), and instead, “limit ourselves to things that can be observed…[i.e.] behavior—what the organism does or says” (Watson, as cited in Berger, 2014, p. 42). Watson’s views, along with Pavlov’s and Bechterev’s, would launch the behavioral school of psychology. The radical behaviorism Watson believed would not allow him to study or theorize about internal experiences such as emotions and their influence on thinking and behavior.

Science has changed the world around us. Whether the discovery was for the benefit of medicine or agricultural each scientist has made some kind of impact on scientific research. These discoveries and answers can make either a small or large impact but most importantly, it evolves the study science in some way. Scientists devote their lives to their research and studies to discover the unknown mysteries of the world. The famous duo scientists Francis Crick and James Watson who both discovered the double stranded helix some centuries ago discovered the greatest impact on science in the biology and field.

Watson’s most infamous work was the Little Albert study he conducted with Rosalie Rayner. The study illustrated that humans can be taught to fear objects through classical conditioning, ultimately providing a foundation for phobias. Watson and Rayner were looking to answer several questions: (1) Is it possible to teach an infant to pair a sound made by striking a steel bar with an animal, and if so will the sight of the animal then make the infant fret? (2) Can the feared response transfer to other animals or objects? (3) After some time, will the infant stop associating the noise with the animal? (4) What can be done to extinguish the fear, given that it doesn’t disappear on its own (Watson & Rayner, 1920)?

In 1913 John B. Watson wrote a article titled 'Psychology as the behaviorist views it', that particular article started what is now known as the "behaviorist movement". Watson realized that both humans and animals have specific ways of acting depending on the environment they were raised in and how they were conditioned for example a lion who was raised in captivity would act differently than a lion that was born in the wild. He believed that everything is learned rather than just known to human and animals, Ulric Neisser believed differently. In 1967, Neisser came up with cognitive psychology. Neisser concluded that some things such as mental illness's are not learned and just come naturally. In the last couple of decades that both behaviorism

Watson has shown us what she knows by telling us what books she has read, and definitely recommends. There are millions of people who are a part of the book club, thanks to Watson. There are also a whole list of authors that Watson recommends for people to start looking at now. One of the authors in Watson’s includes J.K Rowling the author of the series of Harry Potter. Watson has changed my point of view in gender inequality.

IBM is recognized as one of the most successful computer companies and is considered the pioneer of early computing. Over the past decade IBM has shifted from the saturated market of personal computers to full business solutions. Today IBM is a multinational technology and consulting corporation. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Fortune Magazine ranked IBM the second largest employer in the United States with over 435,000 employees worldwide and the ninth most profitable company. IBM’s employees have received five Nobels Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology and five National Medals of Science. The automated tellar machine, floppy disc, hard disk drive, and the magnetic stripe card were all invented by IBM. As large and successful as IBM is, it would have never come to exist had it not been for one man. Thomas J Watson was the first of it’s guiding lights and is generally considered to be the father of IBM.

The first talk that I watched was called The jobs we’ll lose to machines and the ones we won't by Anthony Goldbloom. To simply put it his talk is about A.I or Artificial Intelligence and its impact on different jobs. To start Goldbloom shows the growth of Machine Intelligence from its humble start of assessing credit risk and sorting mail. To its massive advancements to where machines are able to perform tasks such as grading essay papers and determining different eye diseases such as Diabetic retinopathy. In his talk, Goldbloom shows that machines bear similar results to humans in tasks such as stated before(grading essays and determining certain eye diseases). Anthony also argues that given the correct data Humans will have a clear advantage

For all its complexities, Watson can not exist without being fed knowledge by humans. To learn how to make a cancer diagnosis, it must be programmed with thousands of cancer diagnoses. If there is an anomaly that has never been seen before, Watson will not necessarily have the capability to solve it. Missing or incompatible data could seriously skew a result. This is not a problem unique to Watson; all healthcare applications of machine learning suffer from this dilemma. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-for-ibms-ai-ambitions/

IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data. Natural language processing makes it user friendly and the users of this cloud service need not be technically sound as required in traditional methods of analytics.