Feb 172011
 

UPDATE! See also Ben Goertzel’s excellent piece:  Watson:  Supercharged Search Engine or Prototype Robot Overlord?
[VIA KURZWEIL AI]

“The run has successfully demonstrated not only that a computer can beat humans in a trivia question quiz, but, more importantly, it shows how computers can answer questions much like people do, opening up a potentially new form of human/computer interaction.”

[VIA PC WORLD]

THIS STUFF IS RELATED:
Turing Tuesday: The Significance of Watson and Mind vs. Machine
Showtime: IBM’s Watson To Make History With Jeopardy! Performance Today
 February 17, 2011  Posted by at 9:53 PM Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia