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| Computer wins on 'Jeopardy!': |
| Computer wins on 'Jeopardy!': Trivial, it's not
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 18-February-2011
3:55:36 AM |
| In the end, the humans on "Jeopardy!" surrendered meekly.
Facing certain defeat at the hands of a room-size IBM computer on Wednesday evening, Ken Jennings, famous for winning 74 games in a row on the TV quiz show, acknowledged the obvious. "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords," he wrote on his video screen, borrowing a line from a "Simpsons" episode.
From now on, if the answer is "the computer champion on "Jeopardy!," the question will be, "What is Watson?"
For IBM, the showdown was not merely a well-publicised stunt and a $1 million prize, but proof that the company has taken a big step toward a world in which intelligent machines will understand and respond to humans, and perhaps inevitably, replace some of them
Watson, specifically, is a "question answering machine" of a type that artificial intelligence researchers have struggled with for decades - a computer akin to the one on "Star Trek" that can understand questions posed in natural language and answer them.
Watson showed itself to be imperfect, but researchers at IBM and other companies are already developing uses for Watson's technologies that could have significant impact on the way doctors practice and consumers buy products.
"Cast your mind back 20 years and who would have thought this was possible?" said Edward Feigenbaum, a Stanford University computer scientist and a pioneer in the field.
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