Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Super computer "Watson" takes on human quiz champions...

A computer that can understand and respond to complex language has taken on two human contestants on the US game show Jeopardy.

Named "Watson", the machine developed by computer giant IBM, went up against the popular programme's most successful champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

In its first formal competition and a key test of the technology, Watson started strongly but went on to get four questions wrong, leaving it in joint first place.

There are two more segments of the trivia show left before the winner of the exhibition matches is decided. More + photos...

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1 comment:

  1. Congrats to IBM and Watson for their amazing achievement over the past few years. This is an incredible break through for technology andI anticipate great things from it. It is a shame how many folks seem to have a poor grasp on the complexity of the problem and consider this whole exercise "stupid". There will always be a troll for every subject.

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