I just learned about this ridiculousness last night in class when someone made a comment about Watson and everyone seemed to know what that meant. For those who don't know (for those stuck in some graduate school bubble/choose not to watch tv), Watson is a super computer that has been beating the two best Jeopardy stars ever (here's an article about it). Yes, people care about this. And they should, but not because it's on some game show. Rather, because this computer is able to use ambiguous clues to deduce answers faster than humans.
Imagine Google doing that. According to this article (Which search engine would win at Jeopardy?), that ranks search engines on how well they would do on Jeopardy, Google would have the correct answer 66% of the time, with some other search engines close behind. Watson was significantly more accurate than that. Imagine the implications for future search engines. I'd like to know how Watson does what it does--does it function as a search engine like the others? People seem to think that this is it for AI--the robots are next! People are weird.
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