Watson

[iamlying]

I love the NY times website. How do they expect to sell any papers when the website is so far superior. (answer: apparently they don't)

I read this yesterday and I'm suddenly so geeky excited about the future. IBM made a computer called Watson that can play jeopardy. Basically, it can understand natural language and answer correctly, like the

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[hajenso]

So it works by looking at statistics on how often given words are found close to each other? I wonder how it actually forms context-appropriate sentences from the prose it has in its database.

[hajenso]

I just realized I called this possible ancestor of our machine overlords "it". What a carbon-based bigot I am.