Earlier today we gave you the run down on IBM’s Watson AI supercomputer, and now we have video of our would-be conqueror’s test match with two top Jeopardy players.
IBM only demonstrated a few minutes of the test match, but what was most impressive was just how natural Watson seemed at the game. Sure it sounds robotic, but Watson is choosing questions and formulating answers on par with top Jeopardy contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In three minutes of questioning, Watson ended up defeating both humans with $4,400 won, compared to Jennings’ $3,400 and Rutter’s $1,200.
What does this mean for the actual Jeopardy match between Watson and the two champs? I have a feeling both humans will be surprised at just how handily they’re defeated. The actual match is being recording over the next few days, but we won’t see it on television, or learn the results, until the Jeopardy episodes air on February 14 to February 16.
And if it does win, I’ll leave you with this one great quote from an IBM researcher who worked on the supercomputer, “Watson doesn’t have emotions, but Watson knows humans have emotions.”
Kirllos , a hacker is accused of being responsible for the theft of an unprecedented number of user accounts from Facebook.Researchers from iDefense group, company VeriSign, discovered recently that the hacker sold usernames and passwords on a social networking forum hacking illegal. But what really drew attention was the amount of data that the criminal had for sale: 1.5 million accounts.
The VeriSogn not yet known if the bills sold in the forum are legitimate. Facebook has not commented on the situation. Second statement, if the data are real than Kirllos has the account information of about one in every 300 users of social networking. The price of market sales hacker ranges from $ 25 to $ 45 per thousand accounts, depending on the number of contacts for each user.
According to the intelligence director’s cyber VerigSign, Rick Howard, yet the criminal seems to have sold about 700 000 accounts. “Hackers have sold the credentials of social networks for some time. We have seen an active trade names and passwords for VKontakte Russia, for example. But now the trend is to go behind global goals such as Facebook,” says Howard.
according to security firm virtual, “Facebook has more than 400 million users worldwide. In the case of stroke, criminals send messages from a compromised account, telling friends that the owner is stuck in a foreign country and need money to go home, ”
