Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dr. Watson is a Robot!

I feel like my title is from an Asimov summary. Anyway, I just heard about this robot named Watson that is going to pay Jeopardy against human contestants next week. This article (link below) talks briefly about the coming event and also details past "mental battles" between robot and human.


The robot is actually called Dr Watson because IBM (the creators) feel that it can help in the medical field as an encyclopedic reference for doctors. A link between Sherlock and Robots...can't get much better than that!

2 comments:

  1. Agreed! I haven't watched Jeopardy in...DECADES. But I want to watch next week.

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  2. I watched the last round. Watson was awesome! I love his crazy bids of "I will wager $1,743."

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