Final Response Essay

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The following paper answers the questions to the discussion case over IBM Watson, a question answering (QA) computing system. In the first response, it discusses whether or not playing Jeopardy was a good way to test machine intelligence. In the second response, it asked if Watson is a good example of a computer system demonstrating intelligence similar to that of a human. It also asked if Watson would be useful in customer service systems and what it would take for businesses to use Watson for this purpose. In the final response, it asked for suggestions for some other applications for Watson. Machine intelligence is taking over how people get things done and most of the time it is done very efficiently. Yes, playing Jeopardy was a good way to test machine intelligence because the machine was able to look back to its database and synthesize the data to come up with an answer. The article, “How IBM’s Watson Became a Jeopardy Champion,” stated that in order for a machine to win at Jeopardy it had to be able to understand the language of a clue, register the intent of a question, scour millions of lines of human language, and return a single, precise answer, in less than three seconds (Laudon). It is awesome to be able …show more content…

Human intelligence is better than a computer system. Computer systems such as Watson are based on gathering massive evidence, analyzing, and scoring. It is just a machine. Human intelligence gathers emotion, logic, purpose, and potential. Watson cannot compare to these human characteristics, it may speak as if it was human, but it is just speaking off sequences and codes not its actual self (IBM Watson…). Human intelligence is valued much more than machine intelligence because any machine can pull up data that is asked, but when an individual provides answers, phrases, or facts without the use of technology that is

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