IBM is tuning up its supercomputer to take on human kind once again. Just as IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the world’s grandmaster chess champion in 1997, a new supercomputer by the name of Watson will be taking on the champions of the television gameshow Jeopardy. The match will air February 14 – 16. Last week Watson easily beat its human rivals in a practice round. Watch the video accessed via the link below.
IBM’s Watson supercomputer destroys all humans in Jeopardy practice round (video) [Engadget]
I am really looking forward to this. I wish I could have been on the team to create this machine.
I’d love to see the algorithm. You think Watson is connected to the Internet? Maybe a quick Google search? lol
I read that it’s restricted to whatever is in it’s database at that time. They decided a live internet connection would be cheating.
It’s a really fascinating project. I’m interested to see other applications!
I found your website via track-backs from your web design class and saw this post.
What I find most fascinating is how the ‘Wastson’ computer on the Jeopardy game show shown here can understand spoken speech — I would imagine *that* uses far more computing power than analyzing the actual question.
What do you think?