IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited

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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Re:Well, this is no good

[MichaelSmith]

By your definition I don't believe we are intelligent. Intelligence (and sentience) are made up to justify our treatment of entities we put in other categories. We used to treat black people the way we currently treat animals, and the justification was much the same.