Vinoth Ramachandra

Archive for January 25th, 2012

Minds and Machines

Posted by: vinothifes on: January 25, 2012

Last February, the IBM supercomputer Watson won an exhibition game of the American TV show “Jeopardy” against two of its best contestants. This was a significant advance on Deep Blue, another IBM supercomputer, which had defeated the six-time world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. It was hailed in the popular media as heralding the [...]


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