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David Ferrucci developed IBM's Watson
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Do You Trust this Computer?

David Ferruccideveloped IBM's Watson, and somebody asked him,"Does Watson think?" And he...

David Ferrucci
developed IBM's Watson, and somebody asked him,
"Does Watson think?" And he said,
"Does a submarine swim?" And what they meant was,
when they developed submarines, they borrowed basic principles
of swimming from fish

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David Ferrucci developed IBM's Watson,
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and somebody asked him, "Does Watson think?"
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And he said, "Does a submarine swim?"
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And what they meant was, when they developed submarines,
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they borrowed basic principles of swimming from fish.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:19
Uploaded
Jun 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Papercut Films,Diamond Docs

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It's very probabilistic, but with contextual relevance.
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In your brain, you have long neurons
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Deep learning is a totally different approach
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Imagine, if you will, a neural network, you know, like 1,000...
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And so, we know that human faces appear a lot in videos,
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Leave Britney alone!
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So, we looked, and to our surprise,
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It's all pretty innocuous when you're thinking abo...
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It all seems kind of harmless and benign.
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