The Computer That Could Be Smarter Than Us [IBM Watson]

you are watching ColdFusion TV a note to the viewer I don't usually say this but it's imperative that you pay attention to the entirety of this production what you're about to see may very well be the future of computing and may affect you directly in the future that being said please enjoy the production since the dawn of our modern civilization humans have been pushing towards something we've continuously been creating tools to make our lives easier tools to help us build survive and thrive within the circumstances of the age tools such as language mathematics and science helped build early society and of course sometimes greed and the love of power did get in the way of this concept but the creation of new tools never stopped directly after the great war of the 20th century we saw unparalleled prosperity and more positive changes to society than ever before and a few decades later came the tool that truly changed the world the microchip as the Industrial Revolution expanded human ability in a physical sense by amplifying human strength the microchip revolutionised and amplified the power of the human brain we then saw the pace of Technology increase at a brand-new level even during the decades of conflict a new age of rapidly evolving applications for the microchip came to fruition after this the internet Shrunk the world and consolidated all of humanity's information in one place all of our history thoughts and ideas were put together and coupled with a dynamic experience featuring real-time interactions between individuals communities and even political figures currently we live in a time like no other and we all know it but what tool is next after the Internet what is the next game changing type of technology as we fast approached the middle of the 2010s it's clear that we've had plenty of new emerging technologies such advances have seen 3d printed houses food and most recently and probably most surprising 3d printed human body organs in addition to this we've seen a new type of legitimate decentralized currency without a Federal Reserve to Tainter cryptocurrency we've also seen the rise of the ultralight drone is applications banned from surveillance to civilian uses with the aid of the smartphone drones can perform incredible feats unimaginable to the common consumer just a decade ago and to top it off we have the rather dexterous robots recently brought under Google's wing but what if I told you that all this paled in comparison to the implications of the next wave of Technology and why is that you might ask well this next technology was designed to operate like the human brain let me bring this to you in the form of a question what if there was an artificial intelligence machine so powerful that it could take any information and quickly learn everything there is to know about that information and then give you relevant answers to naturally ask questions backed by reasoning in other words extremely advanced machine learning that results in reasoning what if this machine could aid in finance scientific research health care provide business solutions revolutionize the food industry and much more so what am I talking about exactly here welcome to the world of IBM Watson so what is it Watson at its core is a supercomputer but the genius is really in the software it was hand-built by IBM and has cloud computing in mind in a nutshell it's the cutting edge of artificial intelligence many levels above anything we've seen before so you might be thinking how is this any different to Google or Google now or please pay close attention here because this is where your discovery begins the best way to highlight the massive implications of this artificial intelligence is to show you a demo I want you to take particular note of the steps that the system is taking so one of the prototype systems that we're building is something we call bader we give it freewheeling understanding of large bodies of information like Wikipedia and we asked the computer with no human intervention construct arguments pro and con on any subject we throw at it and the result of that is what I'd like to show in the demonstration now so as I said we could throw any subject at it I've chosen some here let's just pick the first one so it will now look for all in all the literature and try to understand as a computer what's a pro and what's a con for violent video game games let's roll the first one scanned approximately 4 million Wikipedia articles returning 10 most relevant articles scanned all 3,000 sentences and top 10 articles detected sentences which contain candidate claims identified borders of Canada claims assessed pro and con polarity of can of it claims construct a demo speech with top claim predictions ready to deliver you have selected the topic the sale of violent video games to minors should be banned I would like to raise the following points in support of the topic exposure to violent video games results in increased physiological arousal aggression related thoughts and feelings as well as decreased per social behavior in addition these violent games are lyrics actually caused adolescents to commit acts of real-life aggression finally violent video games can increase children's aggression on the other hand I would like to note the following claims that oppose the topic violence in video games is not causally linked with aggressive tendencies in addition most children who play violent games do not have problems finally video game play is part of an adolescent boys normal social setting would you like to discuss another topic and so as as you can see if we can go to the final chart again completely unaided by humans the system went through all of this knowledge and constructed and reasoned will then quote on its own now think about what this means it's no longer a game man versus machine it's man and machine reasoning together I believe this is the future of computing thank you thank you so that demonstration was pretty cool but it's just the beginning the thing that's most incredible about IBM Watson is what it can do without the internet like what you may ask how about beating two Jeopardy game show champions Watson had no help no internet the computer was asked questions in the same way as the guests and at the same time as the guests still you are right what is violin but who is the church lady yes Watson what is narcolepsy you are right and with that you move to thirty six thousand six hundred baby who is Bram Stoker and the laser Oh 17,000 and a two-day total of 77,000 I would have thought the technology like this was years away but it's here now I have the bruised ego to prove it my past jeopardy experiences have been great but they weren't really weighty with this kind of technological philosophical importance I think we saw something important today and that was three years ago the system is much better today so much so that in February 2013 IBM announced that Watson's first software system application will be for management decisions in lung cancer treatment at Kettering Cancer Center it has shown that treatment one has a 95 percent confidence of being effective whereas treatment two is only half that is so obscure that you would have needed Watson for the diagnosis and treatment or an oncologist come up with the same treatment in fact this is such a new discovery of this particular mutation and it's a relatively new drug as well that my guess is that many oncologists may not be quite up to speed yet Watson has been so accurate that today 90% of nurses in the field he is Watson now follow its guidance for a first application of a new type of technology of this nature this success is almost unheard of all of this recent progress was somewhat unexpected but Watson as a tool will only grow in application and power as time passes let's take a look at one more application of Watson before we break it down and see what this all means and how this technology might be relevant to you in the future from traders at Citigroup the bank hired Watson for his first foray into financial services so what does the big bank expect to get from the trivia Wiz the Toronto Star says the bank will use Watson to taken everything from information about customers profiles and banking activities to corporate quarterly reports analyst reports regulations credit ratings government securities filings and the institution's own rules it could also gather intelligence from online news reports blogs and Twitter feeds there's a lot to take in but the bottom line is that Watson is showing some very real promise of giving accurate answers to anything if you give it information or study material if you will all of this being said there is a touch of concern among some Watson displays ability to give reasonable answers in the fields of expertise that would otherwise require years of industry experience although today Watson is still a tool and a guide the obvious question is could Watson replace expensive employees that are currently within the same area of operation even though many said the same thing would happen with the microchip in the 1970s nobody can know this for sure if the job depends mostly on research and reasoning it could very well be a possibility the technology behind Watson is very exciting due to the fact that in November 2013 IBM announced that will make Watson available to software developer providers this enables them to build apps and services that are embedded with Watson's capabilities in short Watson may be coming to a mobile device near you using the cloud of course and in fact it's already on iPad for the medical professionals mentioned earlier in the video in a previous episode of ColdFusion TV we've seen just how large Google became by providing the service of easy to find information imagine providing the service of accurate answers to all information the implications of such a powerful tool are both exciting and confronting at the same time but what can we take away from all this looking at the wider picture although Watson is smarter than a human it's not necessarily more intelligent after all humans built Watson in the first place so that's all the latest information on the greatest artificial intelligence to exist on this planet today Watson may just be the most advanced tool we've created yet let's see what changes it causes within society in the future hey guys here the creator of that video and of course this channel I just want to thank you guys watching the whole way through and it's just really insane when you sit down and think about all this technology that's happening in our world today and just have little people actually really know about it so yes it's going to be a really interesting time when all this comes into fruition actually matures in a technological sense but anyway I just wanted to thank you guys for watching and if you did enjoy that please give it a thumbs up and maybe subscribe if you liked it and share it to a friend if you think they would be interested in this kind of technology which I think most people should actually take a look at what's actually happening today but um yeah I think that's enough for me so until next time have a good one enjoy yourselves and I catch you again soon for the next video Cheers cold chicken are you thinking

Channel: ColdFusion

Views: 435,310

Rating: 4.9211707 out of 5

Keywords: Computer, (Industry), IBM, watson, coldfustion

Id: yXcDir9Y9CI

Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 01 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/gophercuresself]

I can't stand a video that tells me it's a must watch. That's for me to decide, sunshine. This isn't bad but there's nothing new in it.

[u/Is_it_really_art]

You and me, genius.

[u/corruption93]

This video is a grade school level regurgitation of ideas we've all heard many times before.

He should use 'microprocessor' or 'integrated circuit' instead of 'microchip'.