Monday, April 27, 2009

Still Not Impressed

IBM has concocted a supercomputer and software that they think might be ready to take on real people on Jeopardy. They're not fully confident though, because of things like this:

The complexity of the challenge is underscored by the subtlety involved in capturing the exact meaning of a spoken sentence. For example, the sentence “I never said she stole my money” can have seven different meanings depending on which word is stressed.


When they invent a computer that thinks like a woman, *then* I'll be impressed.

2 comments:

LeeAnn said...

Who says we ladies haven't and we just aren't sharing. *eg*

Mad William Flint said...

too...easy...

must....resist....

can't...

*staples lip closed*

 
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