On the face of it it doesn't seem that difficult, until you remember how some Jeopardy questions are asked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/te...7jeopardy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/te...7jeopardy.html
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David
The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment. -
It's harder than it looks. For one thing, the computer has to understand natural language. For another, although Watson's developers can program in a large number of answers, it still has to come up with fast, clever algorithms for searching them.
IBM is doing this for a couple of reasons. First, they'll use the results in some very practical, very profitable way. Second, win or lose it will be great publicity, just like the chess-playing exercise a few years ago.
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