Saturday, January 15, 2011

Cathy Davidson's blog

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"Mr. Watson! Come here! I want you!"

Posted: 15 Jan 2011 07:22 AM PST

"Watson" is also the name of the really amazing new IBM supercomputer that has already beat Jeopardy's two top-ranked human contestants  (Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter) in a practice round.   Next month, Watson will be entering all kinds of tournaments to show off its astonishing ability to come up with the right answers to non-formulaic questions. The screen also flashes Watson's degree of certainty about the answer he is giving to any question (nice touch, that!)

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