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IBM's Watson Chief on Future of AI

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I was interested in doing IBM's Watson Hackathon this month: I prototyped a little app that used their speech recognition service but quickly discovered that it couldn't understand even the most basic things that I said, whilst Nuance/Siri had no issues. I've also seen demos given by the Watson team consisting mostly of very deep Java stack traces, and "sorry, this question could not be answered, try later". Whilst I think that Watson seems more of a triumph of marketing over technical capability, they're at least headed in the right direction.

The full podcast of the interview: http://metisstrategy.com/podcasts/Interview%20with%20Mike%20...

Is there a way to read Forbes articles without disabling content blockers? I don't want to go back to all those cookies and ad trackers.

It works fine for me, using Ghostery.

Well, for some definitions of "works fine" - I have no idea how someone came up with the idea of having multipage articles, while at the same time loading other articles with infinite scrolling. I can be on page 2/4 of this article, scroll a bit to the bottom and end up reading something on passwords.

I turned off uBlock for the landing page then turned it back on. I think I triggered the 30-days, though. Here's a pastebin of it.

http://pastebin.com/G9yK3AnP

It just works in this case without any trick for me, I'm positively surprised.

Same issue - bye bye Forbes.

I love free content (almost free). And this is the first time I have run into a site where it said "You shall not pass (with you ad blocker turned on)". I like Forbes, and I am willing to give ads a try for a while. Otherwise "freeish" content will be disappearing.

I decided to turn my adblocker off wherein I received the message:

"Thank you for turning off your ad blocker! Enjoy Forbes' ad-light experience for 30 days."

So what's "ad-light"?

Two auto-playing (but volume muted) videos wasting my bandwidth showing some celebrities I've never seen and don't care about, an ad for CCTV cameras (which I've just been searching for), several other banner ads which were not tailored to anything I've previously been looking at, followed by those God-awful clickbait-masquerading-as-news blocks at the bottom of the article.

Oh, and the article is artificially split onto 4 pages to keep you clicking and reloading more ads.

I'll keep my adblock on next time.

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