From Stu: IBM put together a marketing page to promote Watson, the artificially intelligent system specifically designed to compete against humans playing Jeopardy. The focus on the Watson project is not to win big cash prizes, but to demonstrate real progress is the quest to have a computer system answer questions posed by humans using natural language. Click here to read about the DeepQA Jeopardy Challenge, and click here to read a bit more about the DeepQA Project.
– Dave
Did you notice that the executive producer of Jeopardy is using an iPhone in the video footage? Where’s the Jeopardy iPhone edition?
Excellent point. I did not notice that. Too funny. And I would LOVE to see a Jeopardy app…
– Dave