History is being written this week on the set of Jeopardy. Not since Deep Blue defeated Kasparov has a human versus machine been so widely publicized. IBM has developed 'Watson'; an artificial intelligence capable of competing on the trivia gameshow against HUMAN opponents. The opposition??? Watson is competing against Jeopardy's all-time champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. IBM's R&D team have programmed Watson to listen to trivia answers and then query it's onboard database to choose the most relevant 'question'. I watched the first episode of three episodes, and the computer is definitely holding it's own against the human brain... or vice-versa. Rutter was tied with Watson leading into final Jeopardy.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/watson-wrong-answer-trebek/
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