Excerpt_
" He's bad with puns. Great at math. And, next week, he will compete on the game show "Jeopardy!" against real, live, breathing, thinking humans. Smart ones, too. The ' Watson ' IBM computer, which has been in development for four years, will be matched against Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, two of Jeopardy's champions. "
When ?
" The episodes are scheduled to be aired February 14 to 16. Watson beat Jennings and Rutter in a practice round last month, during which the computer fielded about half the questions and gave all correct answers. "
Of course google is involved .
" Can you compare Watson to the machines we use every day, like a standard laptop?
Watson has the power of a couple thousand laptops working together. And in terms of sophistication, it's a program that understands complex English -- or works mightily to understand complex English. And we don't have that in our laptop. What we have is Google. And with Google we work really hard to help Google understand what we're trying to communicate -- the two or three words we hope the computer will understand. "
But it isn't perfect !
" Are there certain things it doesn't understand?
It has a harder time when it has to figure out multiple things in a question..there's a type of..question that says, like, ' Do the math: _____ blind mice, times ___ Commandments equals this. ' So you have to say, ' Okay, that's three blind mice, times Ten Commandments, so that's 30. ' That would be a lot of work for Watson. If there's a lot of puns..it has trouble with puns. Language is so hard for it. It struggles with basic language, even like what you and I are talking about. And if they try and trip it up, they can succeed. "
Link_
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/07/watson.ibm.jeopardy/index.html .
' Behind-the-scenes with IBM's 'Jeopardy!' computer, Watson '
CNN
( Feb 8, 2011 )
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