Image by charliecurve via FlickrSo the two smartest jeopardy guru's were beaten by IBM's super question answering machine. Not even weird semantics of English and popular culture were able to throw him off.
And this training must have paid off.
While Watson had millions of books in his database, and a sweet mechanical push button device, he also wasn't hampered by emotion. As he played, he didn't have to worried about paying taxes on the million dollar prize for the victor, or being laughed at by his friends for missing those ridiculously easy questions about Jersey Shore.
Don't cry humans.
I also now have to wonder about what this technology will lead to. What if someone decided to use it for evil purposes? What if someone tried to destroy their LSAT's, MCAT's, or SAT's? Good luck trying to sneak all those servers into the test room. But I guess a bluetooth device implanted in your molar and connected through "sweet video camera eye glasses," could make this possible. hmmmm....
seems like a lot of work. I'll just keep reading books.
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