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Day: January 16, 2011

  • George Rebane IBM’s Watson supercomputer has bested humans at the TV game Jeopardy.  Furthermore, it promises to give a definitive performance on 13, 14, 15 February.  Big deal?  Yes it is; and please don’t confuse this advance in machine intelligence with the 1997 victory over chess master Gary Gasparov by IBM’s then hotshot Deep Blue.  The…