Comments on: Gene-expression data to hit one million deposited data sets http://www.kurzweilai.net/gene-expression-data-to-hit-one-million-deposited-data-sets Accelerating Intelligence Fri, 24 May 2013 06:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: melajara http://www.kurzweilai.net/gene-expression-data-to-hit-one-million-deposited-data-sets/comment-page-1#comment-25544 melajara Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:43:31 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156380#comment-25544 Data is useless if you don't have a "mind" behind to "compress" the data in meaningful interrelated concepts. I see a job here for Watson. It is no coincidence that the article mentions a researcher from IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. This could very well be a target application of the DeepQA project at the center of Watson's Jeopardy feat last year. Now imagine a "MetaDeepQA" layer whose job is to provide a reasoning engine to provide a string of answerable DeepQA queries possibly depending on the completion of not yet done automated scientific experiments (here new gene expression sampling), then you have the blueprint of a quite powerful "automated scientist". I make the bold prediction that such a scientist (but still guided by human operators) should be awarded a Nobel Prize before 2020! Actually such "centaur" teams (as already present to play the highest level of chess) should become more and more common for conducting scientific research till the computer will be truly autonomous (up to 2040). Data is useless if you don’t have a “mind” behind to “compress” the data in meaningful interrelated concepts.

I see a job here for Watson. It is no coincidence that the article mentions a researcher from IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. This could very well be a target application of the DeepQA project at the center of Watson’s Jeopardy feat last year.

Now imagine a “MetaDeepQA” layer whose job is to provide a reasoning engine to provide a string of answerable DeepQA queries possibly depending on the completion of not yet done automated scientific experiments (here new gene expression sampling), then you have the blueprint of a quite powerful “automated scientist”.

I make the bold prediction that such a scientist (but still guided by human operators) should be awarded a Nobel Prize before 2020!

Actually such “centaur” teams (as already present to play the highest level of chess) should become more and more common for conducting scientific research till the computer will be truly autonomous (up to 2040).

]]> By: Gorden Russell http://www.kurzweilai.net/gene-expression-data-to-hit-one-million-deposited-data-sets/comment-page-1#comment-25459 Gorden Russell Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:26:17 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156380#comment-25459 This is what Ray talked about when he wrote his last book. The line of the graph of the curve of progress is getting steeper and steeper to the right. The curve is going to look like the blade of a hockey stick. In 18 months it will be even steeper. As computers double in speed they will gather twice the data. As their processors double in capacity the numbers they crunch will double in size. This is what Ray talked about when he wrote his last book. The line of the graph of the curve of progress is getting steeper and steeper to the right. The curve is going to look like the blade of a hockey stick. In 18 months it will be even steeper. As computers double in speed they will gather twice the data. As their processors double in capacity the numbers they crunch will double in size.

]]> By: GatorALLin http://www.kurzweilai.net/gene-expression-data-to-hit-one-million-deposited-data-sets/comment-page-1#comment-25325 GatorALLin Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:32:42 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=156380#comment-25325 ..this is so awesome...and database will keep growing and really help broaden the understanding of how different cancers work or act like other disease. The idea that others can search the same data on a massive scale is genius. ..this is so awesome…and database will keep growing and really help broaden the understanding of how different cancers work or act like other disease. The idea that others can search the same data on a massive scale is genius.

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