IBM's Jeopardy Strategy

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 5, 2011 @08:37AM from the john-henry dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Developing a computer that could play chess once seemed like a worthy AI goal — but it turned out to be something of a dead end, as chess is very abstract and simple when compared to the real world. Will creating a game-show-playing computer lead to more interesting results? IBM hopes so, and its Watson machine will tackle problems in parallel processing, data searching, and natural language comprehension in an attempt to beat Jeopardy legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. " IBM announced the man vs. machine competition last month.

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I can see it now by $RANDOMLUSER · 2011-01-05 08:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I'll take Patent Trolls for 100, Alex.

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Re:Meh... by zero.kalvin · 2011-01-05 08:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Obligatory XKCD : http://xkcd.com/810/ though you know, i don't think we can even start to imagine what kind of application a real capable AI can have. Just leave it to the future!
Time for a new category... by infernalC · 2011-01-05 11:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Jennings: I'll take CAPTCHAs for 1000, Alex...
Big Blue: Damnit.