The New York Times' John Markoff describes how IBM's Watson, a “question answering machine” of a type that artificial intelligence researchers have struggled with for decades — a computer akin to the one on “Star Trek” that can understand and answer questions posed in natural language — was successfully pitted against Jeopardy!'s two most impressive human contestants.
Also, Jeopardy!'s supreme champion Ken Jennings writes about what it's like to play against a supercomputer.
Technology: It's quite elementary, my dear...
Technology: It's quite elementary, my dear...
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Re: Technology: It's quite elementary, my dear...
Yes, but why bother when we have Ken?
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Non sum felix lepus
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Please don't tell me that the two Kens have accidentally got mixed up... because if they have, the wrong one won the million dollars.
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