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Saturday 15 January 2011

Computer beats humans in a program of public information

Source: San Francisco d. b. a
She said the company «IBM» U.S. PC maker the night before last, the device of breaking the production won the Champions humans in the program «Giobardi» famous American to measure public information and culture, and that substantial progress in artificial intelligence.
This implies the importance of winning big, because it was achieved in the competition are non-linear thinking, and dumping of natural language questions, which generally lag behind the computers of people for their inventors. This event represents the experience of a contest live television actually between two contestants from humans and computer Ripper, which is called the «Watson», the back of the computer that was the size of the room on the blue stage among the contestants on Monday, in the form of a black screen showing the form of a bright planet.
Computer and was able to answer correctly for about half of the 15 questions faster than its two rivals, scoring a victory for them.
The Estonians were Alepeshrian of the heroes of the game, as the one won in the past 74 consecutive contest, while the other has won a record $ 3.3 million.
The «IBM», said the victory «Watson» demonstrated its ability to analyze complex questions, and collation through tons of data, in order to find suitable answers.
Which was built from 10 PCs and servers and random access memory with a capacity of 15 terabytes, and the ability to access more than 200 million pages of information, but did not have the advantage of your Internet connection.

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