jeopardy robot

Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He's a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show. Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He analyzes the vast amounts of information in his...

Answer: This competitor will give Jeopardy! über-champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter a run for their money in 2011. Question: What is Watson, IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer? So have IBM's scientists really solved the puzzle of quickly answering questions posed in natural language?

Jeopardy will have an unusual contestant next year - an IBM (IBM) computing system named "Watson." Watson will take on the show's two most successful contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (pictured left to right), in February, according to the show's website. IBM scientists built Watson to...

There's a massive doctor shortage coming. One solution: develop artificial intelligence that is as good as a real physician at diagnosis. But even if this is possible, will patients be willing to trust robot doctors with their health?