{"id":2827,"date":"2010-12-14T19:48:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2010-12-14T19:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:48:45","slug":"ill_take_machin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take Machine Uprisings For $100, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Jeopardy!<\/i> plans on airing a couple matches featuring two of its most dominant ubergeek contestants of the past and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101214\/ap_en_tv\/us_tv_man_vs_machine\">Watson, an artificial intelligence developed by IBM<\/a>. Oh, sure, the idea seems cute now. I&#8217;m sure our robotic overseers will play it on a loop in the dismal rec rooms of the lunar labor camps, giving us ample opportunity to curse our oh-so-clever scientists. Perhaps I&#8217;m just being an alarmist and this is a harmless publicity stunt. But don&#8217;t come crying to me if Watson suddenly vaporizes its human opponents and declares itself Master of Humanity. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeopardy! plans on airing a couple matches featuring two of its most dominant ubergeek contestants of the past and Watson, an artificial intelligence developed by IBM. Oh, sure, the idea seems cute now. I&#8217;m sure our robotic overseers will play it on a loop in the dismal rec rooms of the lunar labor camps, giving <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2827' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-JB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}