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IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the can-only-give-you-answers dept.

religious freak writes "IBM has created and made the question answering algorithm, Watson, available online. Watson has competed in and won a majority of (mock) matches against humans in Jeopardy. Watson does not connect to the Internet to answer his questions, but rather seeks answers using many different algorithms then employs a ranking algorithm to choose the best answer." We mentioned Watson last year as well.

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  1. Re:Well, this is no good by Quackers_McDuck · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chess has finally been solved to the point that there's now unbeatable AIs available to the average user (assuming it gets to move first)

    There are no unbeatable AIs for chess yet, that would imply chess is a solved game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess). It doesn't make much of a difference who moves first, either.