Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
BREAKING: IBM’s question answering computer, Watson, defeats Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter!
Not to detract from IBM’s achievement but I’m disappointed by the buzzer aspect of this.
Background:
Watson gets the question (or “clue” or “answer” as they call it on Jeopardy) as plain text at the same moment that the humans see... »
Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, news, robots
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
When I was a kid we had a small black & white television that never quite worked right. If you positioned the rabbit ears just so---and no one turned on the kitchen blender---the signal to snow ratio would be just barely high enough to make it through an episode of "The Cosby Show." Humans are... »
Tags: hearing, music, vision
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