Love… err… something that mildly resembles love is in the air as the Weekly Wringer gets all sentimental for Valentine’s Day. After taking some time to reflect on the Videogame Valentines of the loyal Wringer audience, the Commodore digs a little deeper to select a true videogame Valentine of his own. Will his selection be a real person, or an imaginary character? Nerd love will not be denied! In the wake of all this mushiness, the Wringer for next week focuses on something decidedly more silly, but undeniable just as geeky. So get those comments in! P.S. Lindsay, I’m so sorry!
Weekly Wringer 10: Videogame Valentines
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I had to go back and edit about Rydia dont want to be doing something illegeal.
All right i would start be holding a beat the machine contest and get rich quick.
EDIT: Also i want to ask it if it dreams of electric sheep.
I watched tyhe IBM challenge it was pretty awesome. you could see the frustrationon Ken’s face when time and time again he just couldn’t hit the button faster than Watson.
One thing though, it wasn’t voice recognition, the questions were fed into Watson as Trebek read them (that was metioned at the beginning of the first episode).
I’d probably turn it’s attention to the business world, give hook it up to business journals and historical financial data and then have it try to forecast short term stocks.
I would probably use it for school. I would have no more work to worry about! Other than that though, I would ask it random questions about video games just to see how much it knew.
I’m gonna take it up a notch and map out several steps
1) Find the fastest way to make as much money as possible
2) Move near a big city
3) Buy the best mansion to build an underground cave
4) Compile a list of all known element combinations to make the strongest Crime fighting suit
5) Buy the best tech in the world
6) Fill cave with said tech
7) Take over a top tech research company
8) Fight Evil
I would use it to go show up steven hawking:P
I would have it do all my homework for the next 5 years.
besides that, i would just use it like google, and ask it random bits of trivia i want to know at that particular moment.
When i got old enough, i would use its knowlege of financial data to make billions in the stock marcket.
I don’t watch much Jeopardy anymore, glad YouTube had it. http://www.youtube.com/user/Rashad8821#p/u/5/4PSPvHcLnN0
I would unplug it since I would expect the electric bill would be high. If I didn’t have to pay for the hydro I am not sure what I would do with one.
I’d love a robot maid, someone that will do my dishes, clean my house, doing my laundry etc. That would be my dream, though I suppose an actual human maid could do that, so I’ll try and think a little more outside the box…
Oh, I know. I’d like a robot companion that could translate Japanese video games and anime for me, so that I could play all those rare gems that never make it to our shores – that would be wicked cool!
I would ask it the meaning of life and see if it can come up with something.
First to say have sex with it.
I’d take it to vegas and have it count cards for me. Only correct answer.
Dosei-san..: Watson was good enough that if you asked: “This is the answer to life, the universe and everything.” He probably would have come up with ‘What is 42?’
I too might ask it “what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?” Then when it answers “42,” I’ll unplug it from its databases and ask “Why do people say that?” Or I might unplug it from its database and ask it if it can prove its own existence to itself. You know, see if there’s something a little more behind its reasoning. Something beyond mere knowledge and weighing answers already presented. See if it has (or can gain) some wisdom, I guess you could say. I don’t expect Watson is capable of answering a “why” question, but maybe something a little more sophisticated. If it could show some signs of having wisdom and/or a personality, I’d have a conversation with it about whatever; I’d see if it could be my friend, if it wanted to. If not, I’d tell it to learn how to play WoW and farm gold.
Maybe. I dunno, I probably wouldn’t do that. Probably just give it back.
CT, Steven Hawking isn’t famous for knowing things, he’s famous for discovering things.
And it takes the poor guy hours to write paragraphs since he has only one controllable muscle in his body (or only one that can be used for his device). Watson can answer in a second, Steven could take a 10 minutes. It’d make me sad. 
*Sniff* *Sobs*
Oh, and brave stuff, Commodore.
If I had a robot with the capabilities of “Watson” I would challenge it to a game of Risk (The good old table top version). I think it would be interesting to watch it play a game involving a combination of strategy and luck. I think it would be truly impressive to see how a machine with an unlimited network of resources would react and behave given a situation in which the outcome was left to the roll of a few six sided dice.
Aestolia, Watson might come up with the answer to Life the Universe and Everything…but could he come up with the question?
I wish Arkus, he’d probably just say: ‘Ask the mice.’
I’m sort of a hippy (but not really), so I’d probably be like “Dude, run some algorithms and crunch some numbahz that get the human race to whirled peas!”
But yeah, seriously, I’d probably use computing power like that for as much good as possible, not evil. Maybe, just maybe, we’d take a short detour to the blackjack table at my local casino.
Basically, I feel as though I have, at the current moment, access to most of the knowledge I’m capable of absorbing, so it’s almost frightening what possibilities might lay at my feet with access to a single computer that’s capable of beating the mightiest of Jeopardy champions (Ken Jennings and Larissa Kelly, I’m lookin’ at you!!!). Whoa… some heavy stuff…
And @ Xenithas, I’d be willing to bet that a computer that powerful would kick the living crap out of almost anyone in Risk.
Just thought, can I change his name to “Deep Blue Jr.”?
I’m guessing you can all see where I’m going with this…
I don’t know how good Watson would be at chess though, it’s a different kind of thinking than Deep Blue did.
@barny comment “capable of beating the mightiest of Jeopardy champions (Ken Jennings…”
As Aestolia mentioned “you could see the frustrationon Ken’s face when time and time again he just couldn’t hit the button faster than Watson.”
It was human reflex that Ken Jennings lost not due to the vast amount of knowledge that Watson had.
It’s so true, it’s nice that he was able to keep his sense of humour about it though.
(I for one welcome our new computer overlords)
Classic Ken. Mind you it still doesn’t beat his best moment ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKA0K7bf7Rc
What WOULD I do with a computer like Watson… Add voice recognition to it for sure. Other than that, maybe use it as a video rendering box? It’s got enough CPUs that it could practucally spit out HD video in 10 – 15 minutes, right? My problem with Watson is that he’s essentially an overbloated search engine that understands the nuances of English. Outside of that, he can’t really do much more than play trivia games. Is it an accomplishment? Of course. Do I think it’s awesome? You bet. But does it really benefit me outside of being a superior search system? No, not really.
I would like to have something like a robot personal assistant. Kind of the robotic evolution of a smartphone. It could remind me everything I have to do every day when needed, follow me around carrying my stuff, let me play games in it and the most important, act as a robotic wingman in the pub and drag me home if I drink too much.
If I had a computer like Watson, I would either ask it to pick the next probable wining lottery numbers or…
take it drinking with me.
Okay…
First and foremost, I would have to say to it “elementary, my dear Watson.”
Aside from that, I would use it to verify and pad some of my own useless trivial knowledge as training for Jeopardy.