Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He’s a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.
Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He analyzes the vast amounts of information in his databases to come up with contextual clues that let him understand human language, spotting subtleties…
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IBM Supercomputer ‘Watson’ Sweeps Jeopardy Practice Round originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:32:00.
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