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Re:MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award by slacka on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:59AM (#7452645)
> but no one cares that "Watson doesn't know it won".

I care, especially that Watson doesn't know when it lost or learn from its mistakes, because it doesn't actually understand anything. Watson's fragile intelligence relies on the programmers tweaking its algorithms for every particular subject. It's a glorified search engine, as opposed to a true advance in general AI.

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Re:MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award by olalonde on Sunday March 23, 2014 @05:55AM (#7452749)
I doubt parent meant that literally. It was probably more a catchy way of saying "we don't care what happens in the Chinese room". Of course IBM Watson, specifically, doesn't exhibit human level intelligence.
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Re:MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award by judk on Sunday March 23, 2014 @02:40PM (#7454440)
Yes, the classic definition of "general AI" is "whatever computers can't do". That is definition is thoroughly out of fashion now.
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