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I’ll echo the words of Ken Jennings, “I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords”. More »
The first full game of Jeopardy is over, and Watson handily beat his fleshy opponents. More »
Tonight was the first night of the IBM Jeopardy Challenge — in fact, it just ended 30 minutes ago. More »
Engadget was on hand for a practice match between Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and Watson, IBM’s natural language processing supercomputer. More »
First off, after watching the YouTube clip, I wondered for a second whether or not Watson was performing any sort of voice recognition. It turns out that it gets the Jeopardy clues electronically. Which is fine by me. Interpreting vocal sounds is an entirely different ball of wax than what Watson is actually accomplishing here. So what is Watson actually accomplishing? More »
