Science correspondent Miles O'Brien goes head-to-circuit board with IBM's computer Watson on the game show "Jeopardy!" to explore the limits of language and artificial intelligence for machines. Man ...
Remember the date. Because February 16, 2011, may likely go down in history as the day that human intelligence was surpassed -- or at least matched -- by the intelligence of computers and software ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out it really does take a rocket scientist to beat Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey — a five-time champion during the trivia show's ...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. — The clue: It's the size of 10 refrigerators, has access to the equivalent of 200 million pages of information and knows how to answer in the form of a question. The correct ...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Turns out all it took to top Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer, was a rocket scientist. U.S. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey is just such a scientist. The success of Holt — a ...
First Watson won 'Jeopardy!' and now it's coming to your iPhone app. In this file photo, visitors check out a slimmed down version of the IBM Watson supercomputer at IBM's stand at the CeBIT ...
IBM's Watson crushes rivals in second night of "Jeopardy!" challenge. Feb. 16, 2011— -- IBM's super computer Watson clobbered the competition on night two of the three-day man vs. machine ...
Last night, a computer beat two Jeopardy champions at their own game. Watson, the computer, is an IBM project designed to understand the nuances of human language, from playful puns to double ...
If only there were extra points for good sportsmanship. Ken Jennings, the “Jeopardy!” wunderkund who once won 74 games in a row on ABC’s long-running trivia show, bowed out gracefully with a "Simpsons ...