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All hail our computer overlords?
HAL?

 

Fail. Video was taken down.

 

saw this video on yahoo.com..my prediction.. computer wins.. but not by a landslide.. it'll probably be like the kasparov vs deep blue (chess game)back in the 90's where kasparov was able to manage a win.

 

How could a human possibly beat a computer at chess? A computer can simulate every possible outcome of the game in a second and react to a single human input to calculate a win.

 

It happened

 

i watched it, it was running off a database of knowledge, stored books and whatnot, but i guess most of what its processing is human language, computers have a hard time understanding things in context of speech, and the way jeapordy questions are phrased is quite hard for a.i. but it got every question right, it just became a race of who could hit the buzzer quick enough. It took about 3 seconds for it to process each question, and if ken or the other guy could hit the buzzer before that they had a fairly good chance, if they knew the answer of course. They probably did this now while its still competitive, in another 6mos-a year it will be down to 1 second im sure.

fyi, Watson has a 2,880 core cpu and 15 terabytes of ram. according to ibm, a single core would take about 2 hours to figure out each question.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110120...iencejapangame


this research could be the reason why.. perhaps chess is not solely a sheer calculating game..

 

there going at it today