The world's best Jeopardy players will compete today...with a machine:
I watched the NOVA documentary on this project, and it's truly fascinating how they built the rules and database for Watson. It's true it's not A.I., but it will surely be part of the components that will lead to true general A.I.
Icon after icon of what we perceive as the true measure of intelligence is being knocked down, and intelligence keeps getting redefined as something other than what we thought it was. Sooner or later such redefinitions will cease to be useful, and we won't be able to tell the difference between human and machine intelligence. I'm pretty certain the Turing Test will be passed within five years, ten at the very most.
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