Watson Doesn T Know It Won On Jeopardy Summary

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence." - Jean Baudrillard John Searle is an established author and professor. He has written books about language and understanding. He wrote Speech Acts (1969), The Mystery of Consciousness (1997), and Rationality in Action (2001). Searle is the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language at the University of California, Berkeley. (214) John Searle wrote an article that was first published in the Wall Street Journal on February 11, 2011. He examined the performance of IMB's super computer, Watson. He wanted to explore the idea of what Watson understood. (214) Watson is a computer that was created by IBM and named after the company's first CEO. In February 2011 Watson was a contestant on the trivia game show Jeopardy. His two opponents were former show champions. Watson beat his human counterparts. In Searle's article, "Watson Doesn't Know It Won on 'Jeopardy!'", his thesis begins by talking about the vast opinions of people who felt as though Watson's

He begins by asking the reader to imagine that John Searle, himself, was locked in a room full of Chinese symbols. He refers to those symbols in this analogy as "the database". He would be given a manual in English called "the program", and he was referred to as "the computer". Then people on the other side of this room would pass Searle symbols in Chinese, and then he in turn would decipher those symbols using his English manual and the return the correct answers. To the people on the other side of that wall, it would appear that Searle knew what his answers meant since they were correct. He uses this comparison to make the point that Watson knew as much of his answers on Jeopardy as Searle did in that locked room. It was all just programmed information that neither one of them