Watson, the “question answering machine” from “Jeopardy!” can’t engage in smalltalk, but can get a little testy. After reading (memorizing? uploading?) the entire contents of the Urban Dictionary and Wikipedia, Watson proved incapable of gauging its audience. The supercomputer “even used the word ‘bullshit’ in an answer to a researcher’s query.”

“Ultimately, Brown’s 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.” -from the Jan 2013 issue of Fortune

It’s only a matter of time before Watson and SIRI team up to create the ultimate set of Your Momma jokes. Somebody warn Ken Jennings.

2 Responses to “The Computer Overlord and the Signifying Monkey”

1. nicole Hardina says:

   January 14, 2013 at 10:09 am

   Wonderful! It’s time our technology started swearing back at us.

   Reply
   • Amaris says:

     January 16, 2013 at 8:05 am

     First they John Henry our jobs, then they insult us. I’m not looking forward to the Computer take-over.

     Reply