Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Jeopardy champion Jennings on how a computer beat him at his own game (Video)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2M-SeKey4o?rel=0] Jennings in Slate: …there’s no shame in losing to silicon, I thought to myself as I greeted the (suddenly friendlier) team of IBM engineers after the match. After all, I don’t have 2,880 processor cores and 15 terabytes … Continue reading

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Oren Etzioni on Building Intelligent Machines

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6AZ8slivc?rel=0] “There are more things in AI than classification… the entire paradigm of classification, which has fueled machine learning and data mining, is very limited… What we need is a process that is structured, multi-layered, knowledge-intensive, much more like … Continue reading

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Big Data News Roundup

IBM’s Watson visited a few conferences last week. Watson’s lead developer, David Ferrucci delivered a keynote at the ACM’s 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference in San Jose, CA.

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