Monday, February 14, 2011
Computers not ready to take over, even if one wins Jeopardy!
If IBM Corp.’s Watson computer passes the Trebek Test, it doesn’t mean it will pass the Turing Test the next day. Or achieve world dominance.
Ray Mooney
The Trebek Test will take place Feb. 14, 15 and 16 in the Jeopardy! Challenge. The computer plays the Jeopardy! quiz show against two of the best players in Jeopardy! history. Alex Trebek is the host of Jeopardy!
The computer must make sense of the tricky clues, search the tons of information it has digested, find
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