NOVA - Season 38 Episode 13
Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, and the promise of "Hal" from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still just a fantasy. But scientists are edging closer with machines like "Watson," an IBM computing system that is gearing up for a first-of-its-kind challenge: taking on human contestants on the game show Jeopardy! With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and a database of about 10 million documents, will Watson be able to compute its way to victory? Given the complexity of human language, could any computer truly understand it? It remains to be seen if this amalgam of circuits and silicon can really take us closer to the dream of a fully developed artificial intelligence, a truly "conscious" machine. Win or lose, the difficulty of mimicking the human thought process with software is showing artificial-intelligence researchers that there's more than one way to be "intelligent."
First Air Date : 1974-03-03
Last Air date : 2024-10-09
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 38 : Episode 12010-10-19
- Season 38 : Episode 22010-10-26
- Season 38 : Episode 32010-11-02
- Season 38 : Episode 42010-11-09
- Season 38 : Episode 52010-11-16
- Season 38 : Episode 62010-11-23
- Season 38 : Episode 72010-12-28
- Season 38 : Episode 82011-01-11
- Season 38 : Episode 92011-01-19
- Season 38 : Episode 102011-01-26
- Season 38 : Episode 112011-02-02
- Season 38 : Episode 122011-02-09
- Season 38 : Episode 132011-02-09
- Season 38 : Episode 142011-02-16
- Season 38 : Episode 152011-02-23
- Season 38 : Episode 162011-03-30
- Season 38 : Episode 172011-04-20
- Season 38 : Episode 182011-02-09
