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Thread #135742   Message #3096839
Posted By: Amos
16-Feb-11 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: On Watson's 3-Day win on Jeopardy
Subject: RE: BS: On Watson's 3-Day win on Jeopardy
No, indeed!! This was a major plateau on the way to the Singularity. And for many people, Watson actually passed the Turing test, or at least got closer than we have seen before; if the interface with all three had been text instead of voice, the Watson interactions would have looked very human--even the errors!