[loup-vaillant]

> Me and Watson are very similar, Watson can win Jeopardy but has no understanding why, I can recognize a handwritten 'a' and I too have no understanding why.

So, you and Watson are "very similar" just because both systems don't have a perfect understanding of themselves? You don't know that. Your premises look true, but your conclusion don't follow from them (or at all). Actually you probably know that no matter how you spin it, you and Watson are very different.

So don't say you aren't, it's misleading. Not only to others, but to yourself as well. Try to find a meaningful similarity instead.

[ehsanu1]

I find myself doing poor pattern recognition at times (eg always choosing the wrong key for a particular door), and realizing just after that a machine learning library could well make the mistake I just did. This isn't a new insight, but it still feels like an epiphany when you realize it as it happens.