IBM's Watson

[Techne]

Check out how IBM made Watson, an "AI program developed by IBM designed to answer questions posed in natural language" and how he is doing on the show "Jeopardy".

What is Watson?

Building Watson

And here is Watson competing against humans in Jeopardy.

[video=youtube;WFR3lOm_xhE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

 

[mikeyb]

There is a Wikipedia as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(artificial_intelligence_software)

 

[KhabZerius]

... And he beat them!

[video=youtube;8W36OuMU0yE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W36OuMU0yE[/video]

I for one also welcome our new computer overlords

 

[Fudzy]

Reminds me of this...

http://en.akinator.com/

 

[KhabZerius]

Reminds me of this...

http://en.akinator.com/

Wow, I wasn't aware of this one. Just the WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine. I like the answer it gives when asked "Are you Skynet?"

I guess Akinator does the same thing as Watson except he asks "himself" all those questions that Akinator asks the user to get to his answer.

 

[battletoad]

all hail the Turk (sic?)

 

[Palimino]

all hail the Turk (sic?)

That’s a bit exotic. Stand-by for a chorus of “wooshs!”

 

[luxe]

Techne - that was awesome, thanks. I visited the IBM site and watched a few videos on Watson, its actually mindblowingly incredible to think of real life applications for this type of analytics.

Nice find