Boston Globe (February 20)
2011/ 02/ 21 by jd in Global News
In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match. Last week, IBM’s latest supercomputer Watson beat two contestants on the highly colloquial American game show Jeopardy. Is the “age of the neuron” over? The Boston Globe doesn’t think so. “In many ways, even a computer as advanced as Watson lacks the capabilities packed into every human skull. What Watson really shows is the extent of human ingenuity, in the form of its makers.”
Tags: IBM, Neuron, Supercomputer, Watson
