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Computer finishes off human opponents on 'Jeopardy!'

avatar by Benthamite
February 16th, 2011 at 8:27 PM
Filed under: Science & Technology


I'm sure ratings went through the roof, but eh, humbug.

Let's instead let the human contestants, presuming they can type 90+ wpm, have Google Instant at their finger tips. I'd then be more interested.

While computer intelligence of Watson's level, reliably harnessed, would save humans many steps in any thought process, computer-assisted human intelligence poses a more equitable baseline for evaluating computer intelligence than the Jeopardy-staged computer intelligence vs. human intelligence competition.




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