Wednesday, June 16, 2010

NYTimes: A Supercomputer Plays (and Wins) Jeopardy!

Simultaneously exciting and really, really scary:
 
 
On the one hand, I'm secretly hoping that Marvin, my (aging, about to be retired) laptop will talk to me, and to that end, I have enabled his voice command function and occasionally ask for the time, just to hear him respond in that computery voice of his. On the other hand, we humans really aren't as smart as we think we are. Robots might take over the world someday, and we're just hastening our own doom here.

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