Can Big Blue’s technology put an end to human dominance of the long-running quiz show? One betting house suggests it’s likely. – An upcoming episode of the popular quiz show quot;Jeopardy, quot; pitting
an IBM computer called Watson against two
past contestants, is causing many people to question whether or not a computer
can outsmart the human brain when competing in categories known for employing
puns and wordplay. Wat…
In movies, TV shows and books aimed at kids, the creators will often times throw in something a little scary in order to keep the kids on their feet. However, sometimes they really underestimate just how creepy and terrifying these creations are, and end up crafting a scene that permanently scars the fragile young psyches. [...]
IBM researchers have been working for four years on its DeepQA supercomputer, which it showed off at a media event Jan. 13, just before it was scheduled to take on two former Jeopardy champions in a two-day $1 million tournament for the long-running TV game show. Dubbed Watson, after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., the supercomputer can understand natural human language–complete with puns, plays on words, and slang–and answer the complex questions that are typical in the Jeopardy trivia game. Watson analyzes “real language,” or spoken language, instead of just looking for keywords like a search engine. It understands context and correlates the question with the millions of pieces of information it has stored to find a specific answer, said David Ferrucci, the principal investigator on the Watson project. “The hard part for Watson is finding and justifying the correct answer, computing confidence that its right and doing it fast enough,” said Ferrucci. Researchers trained Watson with 200 million pages of text, or about 1 million books, ranging from sources like encyclopedias, movie scripts, newspapers and even childrens book abstracts. “Watson is not just storing all that information,” it is also correlating all of it to make sense out of it, according to Bernie Spang, director of strategy for the software group at IBM Research said. – …
IBM showed off its Watson supercomputer in an exhibition Human vs. Machine game of Jeopardy, while discussing its potential practical uses in the IT industry, especially in health care and tech support. – Watson, IBM’s latest DeepQA supercomputer,
defeated its two human challengers during a demonstration round of Jeopardy on
Jan. 13. The supercomputer will face former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and
Brad Rutter in a two-game,
men-versus-machine tournament to be aired in February.
However, th…
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Only a monsoon or a doughty Australian fight-back Friday could prevent the English cricket team giving Australia a 3-1 hiding in the Ashes series in the fifth and final Test in Sydney. The former looked a more likely prospect than the latter, with the home side still 151 runs short of making England bat again [...]
It’s not always easy for actors to tell which films are going to be a huge success before they’re made. Sometimes a lackluster script meets outrageous talent, stunning visuals, an epic soundtrack, and suddenly you have best-picture winner, Gladiator. Sometimes you have A-list talent and a director famous for churning out critical favorites, but something gets lost along the way and you end up with The Fountain.
One small step for man. One giant leap for machine! Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will face off against an IBM supercomputer in episodes to be aired in February. It’s the first-ever Man vs. Machine Jeopardy! Jennings and Rutter two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions, will play two games against [...]
IBM is using the game show to demonstrate the question-answer computer Watsons capability to quickly answer natural language questions. – IBMs “Watson” computer will finally make its appearance on “Jeopardy” in
February, taking on two of the shows all-time winners over a three-day
span.
The
game will test Watsons abilities to think in a human-like way, not only being
able to retrieve information when requested as is done with a …
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson’s former coach at The Queensland Bulls, Trevor Barsby, believes Watson is a potential challenger to Michael Clarke’s hopes of securing Australian Test captaincy from Ricky Ponting. Clarke had taken charge of the national Twenty20 side in March 2008, but of late has been battling both form and injury. It was also [...]
Former Australian batsman Greg Blewett believes that all-rounder Shane Watson was under bowled in the Gabba Test, and has urged skipper Ricky Ponting to see him as a vital cog in the Australian bowling line-up for the rest of the high-profile series. Blewett, now a Fox Sports commentator, said Watson was one of the few [...]
Emma Watson fears that she has become so rich after working for the Harry Potter franchise that her wealth is putting off men. The 20 year-old, who is now a student at Brown University, Rhode Island, admitted that her riches, thought to be in the region of 22 million pounds according to the Sunday Times [...]
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has said that lessons learned from the 2009 Ashes series loss have ensured that there will be “no excuses†if his team succumbs to England again during the 2010-11 series which starts in Brisbane on Thursday. “It’s always been in the back of our minds. Since the Ashes loss everything has [...]
Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed that she has faced ‘dark times’ due to a ‘voice in her head’. Worth more than 20 million pounds, the Harry Potter actress has proved box office magic but despite her youthful success the 20-year-old has had crippling doubts about her talents. “I’ve had dark times, this voice [...]
Legendary photographer Albert Watson has said that it is impossible to take a bad picture of Johnny Depp. Watson, who has shot more than 200 Vogue covers, was talking to a crowd at the Core Club celebrating his new book, ”UFO (Unified Fashion Objectives).” “He”s a very good-looking man. But he doesn”t like you to [...]
Rupert Grint has said that his onscreen kiss with Emma Watson in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ was ”okay”. “It was actually okay,” People mag quoted Grint, 22, as saying. “It was just the anticipation. Neither of us were looking forward to it.” However, Grint does acknowledge that it may seem a bit unbelievable [...]
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and his co-star Emma Watson have different opinions about their recent on-screen kiss. While Radcliffe said it was ‘vigorous and enjoyable’, Watson found the experience ‘awkward’. The actress has admitted it was made tricky after producers told her at the last minute the snog was to be topless. “I forgot [...]
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and his co-star Emma Watson have different opinions about their recent on-screen kiss. While Radcliffe said it was ‘vigorous and enjoyable’, Watson found the experience ‘awkward’. The actress has admitted it was made tricky after producers told her at the last minute the snog was to be topless. “I forgot [...]
Emma Watson has revealed that she was so starstruck when she came across Matt Demon that she ‘literally couldn’t speak’. The 20-year-old often meets acting icons on the red carpet but admitted her encounter with Damon was a highlight for her. Watson found herself lost for words when she came face-to-face with the ‘Invictus’ star. [...]
It seems Emma Watson plans to keep herself busy post ‘Harry Potter’. The relatively tiny city of Providence, RI, is a place where Watson a.k.a Hermione Granger has decided to spend her four years. The 20-year-old is currently plowing through her sophomore year at Providence’s Brown University, an Ivy League school, where she’s taking courses [...]
