IBM develops Jeopardy-playing supercomputer
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat chess genius Garry Kasparov at his own game.
Now, the company's latest machine – Watson – aims to beat the world's best Jeopardy players.
"A question can be posed in natural language, and having read a whole bunch of information, data, documents,
can come up with a precise answer to that question," says Eric Brown, research manager.
In Jeopardy, a popular US TV game show, players score points by supplying the correct questions to answers given by the host.
This might sound simple, but for a computer, it's anything but.
"Humans communicate very fluently in natural language, and that's where computers struggle dramatically," says Dr David Ferrucci, lead researcher. "That's where we want to make them better."
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Sweet.