{"id":24851,"date":"2011-03-02T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_magazine_10_questions_for_david_ferrucci_lead_ibm_researcher_for_the_w\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:05:40","slug":"time_magazine_10_questions_for_david_ferrucci_lead_ibm_researcher_for_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"(Time Magazine) 10 Questions for David Ferrucci, lead IBM researcher for the Watson Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I tell Watson a joke, will it get it? Could it tell me one?<br \/>\nOne of the things we programmed it to do was recognize what humans would consider puns. It looks for word associations, for synonymy, for &#8220;sounds like.&#8221; But does the computer appreciate the humor? No, it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So no chance Watson could be an artist or poet either?<br \/>\nActually, it could be programmed to have those features. You could train Watson to recognize modern art or classical art, symmetry, shape and color. You could tell it, This is good art, this is bad art. But again, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,2055194,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I tell Watson a joke, will it get it? Could it tell me one? One of the things we programmed it to do was recognize what humans would consider puns. It looks for word associations, for synonymy, for &#8220;sounds<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24851\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}