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IBM Supercomputer vs Jeopardy. Is it real Artificial Intelligence yet?
IBM is building a new supercomputer to win on Jeopardy. But an AI expert asks whether this is the beginning of real artificial intelligence?
After computing breakthroughs on Go, calculus, and even the game “20 Questions,” Ben Goertzel asks whether human intelligence is demonstrably required for any single problem. (He argues the Turing Test could be unfair, since “why should an AI be required to fake humanity?”) Even retrieving the answers to Jeopardy’s trivia question could be accomplished with simple “brute force” and a giant database.
But Goerzel argues that ultimately the research could lead humankind past an even more important benchmark: finally developing a search engine that’s better than Google.
