2013年4月8日 星期一

Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all



Hard Question
- When information is so easy accessible, is memory/processing that much important?


- "I came to believe that there is two advantage for knowing:"
1. Massive different of facts (information are doubling every 18 months); need to have more basics to know where to search.

Muyueh: isn't this the reason why one should not be memorizing that much information ? The fundamental basic that ones need to manipulate the system (ie: searching on Google; or like the process of problem solving in consulting) is different than the memorize it all approach.

One interesting place where this is still disconnected is education: especially the test system, that so far still consist of testing the processing/memorizing ability of humain. 

There will come a day people should be allowed to use Google in their exam, lookup for problem that has been already been solved. As computer is very bad at framing the problem, making decision and pattern recognition.

2. Advantage of time, little girl that remember the right fact that save people from tsunami - > share connection between people.

Muyueh: this is a moving story, but what about all the people that doesn't recall this fact? Isn't it the case where it shows that people among one thousands people, only one little girl recalled, hence, having people to memorize is in fact a bad strategy that we should not rely on?



It is always better to know a thing, then not to know. Last cultural heritage that people shares.

-> Question where who leads the future. Machine taken over where machine takes over.

Muyueh: false dichotomy,

-> Spirit of Jeopardy: people that are curious about everything, constantly learning.





- He is a programmer beaten by IBM computer, understand the difficulty for AI to underst and Jeopardy (a little line that comes closer and closer)

- "I felt an Detroit worker that is been replaced by robot"

- Middle class they can do taken away vs. People will have more time for leisure

- "Is all our of brain going to shrink?"







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