[Beowulf] IBM's Watson on Jeopardy tonight

[Glen Beane]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be tied with a human though i feel means they are on par with humans.
> 

At answering questions on Jeopardy or playing chess (deep blue). These are designed to do a very specific task well. 


> On 2/16/11 9:24 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote:
>>> http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/14/jeopardy.ibm.watson/index.html
>>> 
>>> this is quite an interesting read.
>>> 
>>> question becomes are computers just as smart as we are?
>>> 
>>> I'm quite surprised that the computer doesn't have a massive lead
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>> 
>> Science Friday did a segment on this which is quite good and, of course,
>> more informative for us techi/science guys:
>> 
>> http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201102112 (listen to the
>> podcast segment)
>> 
>> Smart is always a tough thing to measure, even in people.  Computers have a
>> very long way to go if you want to measure them to humans.
>> 
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