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Watson vs Human Intelligence: A Critical Analysis

Watson, an IBM computer, won a question-answering competition against human participants by using brute force methods rather than true comprehension. It relied on 90 servers working in parallel to search its entire database of knowledge and rank multiple possible answers, finding responses in seconds that would take a human mind hours. However, true intelligence involves punctual and natural algorithms, not just accumulating large amounts of data and processing power as Watson does. While IBM's goal was to win the competition, a better approach would combine a human-like philosophy with computational capabilities.

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Watson vs Human Intelligence: A Critical Analysis

Watson, an IBM computer, won a question-answering competition against human participants by using brute force methods rather than true comprehension. It relied on 90 servers working in parallel to search its entire database of knowledge and rank multiple possible answers, finding responses in seconds that would take a human mind hours. However, true intelligence involves punctual and natural algorithms, not just accumulating large amounts of data and processing power as Watson does. While IBM's goal was to win the competition, a better approach would combine a human-like philosophy with computational capabilities.

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Today, the notice about a computer called Watson or DeepQA have

canned win to human participants on a competition of questions


and answers, is spreading around the wide world.

Of course, this notice opens multiple opinions, speculations and phrases which mention
to the famous HAL 2001. The reality is that Watson wins the competitions, nobody can
deny it. However, always was predictable for me this result, more when the machine is
composed by 90 servers in parallel connection or over 250 cores working to obtain a
answer.
I have 26 years studying artificial intelligence in this specific area of the comprehension
of natural languages and in concordance with the material read about Watson, I can
assure about the philosophy used by Watson if very far of a true comprehension. Him
success is mainly based in brute force, but if the goal was to win, the mission was
completed, and a big scene of advertising and news won the attention of millions of
persons though they don't know this systems used by IBM, is not true intelligent, for
this reason any comparison with HAL 2001 is only sensationalism from press.
People must think : were necessaries 250 cores to give a answer in few seconds,
however without these 250 cores the system took 5 hours to give the same answer.
The human mind doesn't work searching the questions on the total of previous
knowledge and information from ever. The human mind doesn't give a ranking of points
for multiple answers.
The human mind is punctual, using other different natural algorithms.
In our little garage in Argentina, we can demonstrate a different philosophy about
comprehension of a text and a true intelligence though incipient. We haven't contains
and other things, but the algorithms and philosophy are different and we don't need 90
servers.
But, what could happen if this, our true intelligence could be supported with 90 parallels
servers ?.
I think is good the goal of IBM (to win the competition), but better could be the
combination of a good philosophy such as a human and the brute force.
I think Watson is far of a true intelligence and the popular use for all people.
Turing said : "if a machine can imitate a human, then the machine, too, would have to
be considered intelligent".
Now, the problem is other. Can Watson imitate a human ?. If we base only on answers,
then, Watson response to Turing's definition, but if we consider the method used to give
the answer, then Watson is not intelligent. For example, when a humans born, he doesn't
imitate a human intelligence because he first must feed him structure with knowledge
extracted from information every days. However we can't say that this human is not
intelligent .Him structure has properties of association and others and then, when this
human will be adult, he will can response to questions, the true imitation between our
born human and other human is not response or not some questions, the imitation is that
both have a structure with similar capability.
The philosophy of Watson is different to a human, Watson don't can imitate to a human
from the structural perspective.

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