[ExI] Watson On Jeopardy

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:39:57PM -0800, Samantha Atkins wrote:

> Not the same problem domain or even all that close.  Can you turn it  
> into a really good chatbot?  Maybe, maybe not depending on your standard  
> of "good".  But that wouldn't be very exciting.    Very expensive way to  
> keep folks in the nursing home entertained.

Think of it like a NL layer for Google, like Wolfram Alpha,
but for trivia and fact knowledge, updated in realtime as
new publications come. Great tool for researchers
and analysts.

It can be pretty shallow reasoning. It's a tool, not a person.

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