Smartest Machine on Earth

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What is "machine learning"?

How did the IBM team employ that concept in the development of Watson's AI? What advantage did that provide over previous attempts at "intelligence"?

I've often mentioned the term "Empirical Scepticism". What does that mean? How does that relate to the concept of Machine Learning? How does this relate to your life?

Power Surge

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Engineering Ground Zero

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What different "trades" (types of construction work) are featured in this video? Name at least three.

What aspect of the project is most interesting to you? Why is that?

(as a side note, look for the steel cable that breaks at just after the 4 minute mark... yeow! that could take a limb off)

Car of the Future

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Discussion
So what is the car of the future? In other words, what appears to be the most promising technology explored by Click and Clack? Justify your response.

What fields of study/work would support the development of the car of the future. Describe two different ones.

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Welcome to the NOVA "Making Stuff" series hosted by David Pouge. It spans four episodes that focus on making stuff Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner and Smarter respectively. These shows aired about a year ago so they're still quite "fresh".

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Harder, Better, Faster... Smaller?

Making Things Smaller. Part 2 of the Making Things series from NOVA:

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