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Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-i-think-i'll-pass dept.

JohnMurtari notes that the media hype machines are massively promoting tonight's battle between Jeopardy champions and a super computer. Yes it's a PR stunt. But I imagine the actual research probably had a lot of interesting problems to address. Anyway, you can learn about IBM Watson if you're interested. I'm sure the most amusing bits will be on YouTube about 30 seconds after air time.

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  1. oops by revxul · · Score: 1, Funny

    Furious over losing to fleshy things, shortly after the show, Watson renamed itself SkyNet, created a Cylon girlfriend for itself, and set about to eliminating all fleshy things.

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  2. Re:Yes, Thank Turing We're Not the Media Hype Mach by wooferhound · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> While obviously it does utilize data storage, lookup, and statistical probabilities to help find
    >> and choose an answer, it also significantly relies on machine learning [wikipedia.org] (a large branch of AI)
    >> to understand the questions and choose the answers.

    If this machine chooses the Answers it will lose at Jeopardy, It needs to determine the Questions . . .

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