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The Game’s Afoot, Watson

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Watson is the latest machine from IBM designed solely to kill all humans beat humans at Jeopardy!.

Code-named “Watson” after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, the IBM computing system is designed to rival the human mind’s ability to understand the actual meaning behind words, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant content, and ultimately, demonstrate confidence to deliver precise final answers.

Interestingly, to play Jeopardy! Watson must understand clues involving irony, puns, subtle use of language, and love. It’s a question answering generating machine!

“Give me ‘Kill All Humans’ for $1000, Alex.”

“Ha ha, oh, Watson……”

(How can a game be a foot?)

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