Hal- Are you there Hal? Another sure footed step has been taken towards true artificial intelligence. IBM has developed a new system code named "Watson", which is a computer that is a "jeopardy computer". Watson has been loaded with information including algorithms that allows it to answer jeopardy type questions without the assistance of the internet. Basically when queried, Watson using the facts that have been loaded into it along with the algorithms to answer the submitted question with a ranking percentage as to the likely answer. Watson has been under development for 3 years and is considered a "super computer".
Oh and Watson can understand natural language, which is also a huge jump ahead as presumably, when queried, Watson would first have to parse the question into native machine language which takes a huge amount of resources (reference the parsing of Visual Basic for example). Then Watson needs to shoot the machine language through the algorithms to determine which areas should be accessed for relevant information and then rank the answer with percentage (which would take huge amounts of resources again as the machine power needed to crunch multiple answers with percentages would be huge).
Where is my robot maid??
More here: DeepQA Project
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