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Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the find-the-prettiest-girl-in-new-jersey dept.

kamesh writes "James Fallows of the New York Times reports an interesting search technology that IBM is developing. IBM demonstrated a system called Piquant, which analyzed the semantic structure of a passage and therefore exposed 'knowledge' that wasn't explicitly there. After scanning a news article about Canadian politics, the system responded correctly to the question, 'Who is Canada's prime minister?' even though those exact words didn't appear in the article. What do you think?"

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  1. Now... by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Feed it the news about Iraq. Then ask it what the war was about.
    Good bye, new system, too dangerous for "national security".

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