AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers

Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by meowface on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:21AM (#33271755)

>Watson was a stunt. It's not very hard for someone on HN to figure out how much of Watson was Watson.

Can you elaborate?

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Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by largepeepee on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:28AM (#33271792)

Waston isn't so much an early general chess ai than a program aided by programmers/other gms to beat a very specific style of chess that the previous world champion played in a limited number of games

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Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by jstx1 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:39AM (#33271849)

I think that you're mixing up Watson the jeopardy bot with Deep Blue the chess bot.

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Re:AI will replace middle management before robots replace h... by dmurray on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:35AM (#33272456)

No, he's reasoning by analogy. Read it as "Watson isn't so much a general trivia AI", etc.

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