{"id":5416,"date":"2011-02-20T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/20\/links-for-2011-02-20\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T06:08:34","slug":"links-for-2011-02-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/20\/links-for-2011-02-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-02-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/what-watson-can-learn-from-the-human-brain\/\">What Watson Can Learn From the Human Brain | Wired Science&nbsp;| Wired.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Watson won. That set of microchips will soon join the pantheon of machines that have defeated humans, from the steam-powered hammer that killed John Henry to the Deep Blue supercomputer that battled Kasparov. Predictably enough, the victory inspired a chorus of &#8220;computer overlord&#8221; anxieties, as people used the victory of microchips to proclaim the decline of the human mind, or at least the coming of the singularity.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I was a little&nbsp;turned off by the whole event &#8212; it felt like a big marketing campaign for IBM and Jeopardy. Nevertheless, I think the real moral of Watson is that our brain, even though it lost the game, is a pretty stunning piece of meaty machinery. Although we always use the latest gadget as a metaphor for the black box of the mind &#8212; our nerves were like telegraphs before they were like telephone exchanges before they were like computers &#8212; the reality is that our inventions are pretty paltry substitutes. Natural selection has nothing to worry about.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/cog-sci\">cog-sci<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/wired\">wired<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/lehrer\">lehrer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Watson Can Learn From the Human Brain | Wired Science&nbsp;| Wired.com &#8220;Watson won. That set of microchips will soon join the pantheon of machines that have defeated humans, from the steam-powered hammer that killed John Henry to the Deep Blue supercomputer that battled Kasparov. Predictably enough, the victory inspired a chorus of &#8220;computer overlord&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/20\/links-for-2011-02-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-02-20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}