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12.03.09

A Supercomputer Takes on Jeopardy

By Jonathon Keats Posted 08.09.2009 at 11:25 pm 2 Comments

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Science, artificial intelligence, deepqa, headlines, IBM, jeopardy, September 2009, supercomputers, watson
In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of computer science, proposed a test for machine intelligence: Ask a human and a computer a question, and see if another person could discern the digital answer from the biological one. Now IBM engineers have devised a tougher task for Watson, their latest supercomputer: Jeopardy.

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