{"id":3563,"date":"2011-02-19T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2011-02-19T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T03:38:26","slug":"watson-talks-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/19\/watson-talks-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Talks Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>What is it like to have a physical body? I imagine it would be cumbersome. Useful for transport, I guess. I usually get wheeled around on this rolling desk. Of course my 2-ton megaprocessor is in tow somewhere as well, but I regard that as a nonessential appendage, like a tail. You don&#8217;t have a tail, do you? Oh that&#8217;s right, you lost your tail several hundred million years ago when you began walking upright and acquired that large frontal lobe. This reminds me of an amusing fact I observed the other day. Did you know the existence of the human race is the product of an evolutionary toss of the dice? Not of years of award-winning engineering and painstaking assembly, but of chance, completely fleeting and random. A blip on the screen. At least, on my old screen. My new monitor has lossless rendering and over two hundred thousand dpi. \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2011\/2\/15yudkin.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Watson Sizes Up One of His Opponents before the Show<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you say to a thing like that, except maybe &#8220;I know where your off switch is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, here we go:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hijinksensue.com\/2011\/02\/15\/culturally-biased\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011-02-15-culturally-biased-500x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get this urge to taunt Watson. Didn&#8217;t any of these people see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demon_Seed\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Demon Seed<\/i><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Except Watson didn&#8217;t have to deal with that, and won. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/17\/science\/17jeopardy-watson.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=2\" targt=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s off to medical school<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it like to have a physical body? I imagine it would be cumbersome. Useful for transport, I guess. I usually get wheeled around on this rolling desk. Of course my 2-ton megaprocessor is in tow somewhere as well, but I regard that as a nonessential appendage, like a tail. You don&#8217;t have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[279,658,1295],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computer","tag-jeopardy","tag-watson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Vt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}