Toronto “U.S. city? Elementary, my dear Watson

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February 18, 2011 – by MetalByte

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Jeopardy! Competition is a popular American television this week has been in the news, particularly in technology sectors, following three stages in which they have fought a duel the top two contestants from the show’s history and Watson, a IBM supercomputer run by Linux .

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lasted three days on release in the popular television show Jeopardy questions and answers!, but not Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the top two contestants from the show’s history, has been with Watson, a monster created by IBM technology 2,880 cores, 15 terabytes of RAM and a Linux head .

all this despite the first round remained in tables, Watson needed only an adjustment to spray his opponents with speed and accuracy. And it is this “creature” has in its interior with a database with all kinds of encyclopedic information, and thanks to a semantic analysis system can understand human language and expressions .

However, the machine was not perfect . Well understood and responded to questions with double meaning or irony, but failed in other seemingly more simple. For example, he could not tell who is “one that should not be named” in reference to Voldemort, the evil antagonist of Harry Potter (series of books which were included in its database), or named Toronto as U.S. city .

Then I leave with the first part of this “challenge IBM”, which presents Watson , plus Hal 9000 Skynet, but a bug scary at the end of the day (the video is in English, but with a little means that you know well, hopefully all Anglophones had the jurisdiction of the host of Jeopardy !-).

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Of course, from IBM and are rubbing their hands , not the prize won, which amounts to $ 1 million to be donated to a charity, but for future applications await this type of technology.

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Watson wins the challenge of Jeopardy!

ibm Watson wins the challenge of Jeopardy!

few days ago I commented that there had been a tie in the popular American game Jeopardy! , including both program and supercampeones supercomputer called Watson , prepared by IBM to understand human language and respond accordingly.

a draw from a machine with two of the greatest brains of the contest seemed already a great result, the victory gained after three rounds have been played indeed indicates the great development that has IBM gave to this project.

To be able to give you an accurate idea of what Watson has been overwhelming during the contest, just enough to comment on the figures obtained by each participant in the three rounds: Watson $ 77,147 , Jennings Rutter with 24,000 and 21,600.

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addition, Jennings took up this challenge won 74 contests in a row , while Rutter is participant with the most money won in the contest , a total of 3,255. 102.

Clearly brains respond to such competition, Watson could not be embarrassed, and really has not been due to the large information handling. For example, has 90 servers fully synchronized to allow the computer to learn from mistakes never to commit, as well also have access to hundreds of million pages of information where to find what you need.

this battle is clear that the technology has won over all human intelligence, but has won IBM’s effort and the vast amount of technology is developing day by day, new and best technologies that lead to precisely supercomputers known as Watson, who will certainly be the future.

thing to emphasize is that having won the competition, Watson (or rather, IBM) received $ 1 million , which will be donated entirely to charity.

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The supercomputer Watson draw against the champions of Jeopardy!

ibm supercomputer Watson watson jeopardy tie against Jeopardy champions!

Surely you’ve ever heard or read somewhere about the game Jeopardy! , one of the most famous American CBS.

precisely in that program was an incredible test, in which the two great champions of the competition were to fight against Watson, a supercomputer developed by IBM , which is great feature being designed to respond as a human , ie, which may include various aspects of human communication, such is the case of jokes, puns, or even understanding the tone of voice.

all made it seem as Watson was to obliterate the competition, but the two supercampeones of Jeopardy! succeeded in making the contest ends in a tie completely unimagined.

While the draw is not what anyone would have thought, is to highlight the great development that is taking place IBM in the production of this type of computers, specifically designed to accurately communicate through a thorough understanding of language.

Even more important are the specifications for Watson, processor 2880 cores that run at 80 teraflops and 15 terabytes of memory RAM , not bad to play Jeopardy!.

Although this time the 3 participants are tied, there are still two other meetings, in which will define who is the winner. If Watson wins, then IBM will give to charity the prize money, if either supercampeones win, give half their prize to charity.

Note that the first prize is nothing more nor less than almost 1 million euros, while the second and third place are 300 thousand and $ 200 000 respectively.

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