Posts Tagged ‘Watson’

Killing Watson: Defeating Alien Intelligence by Questioning the Givens and Changing the Game

TweetMy eyes started darting when I realized what Watson was doing—preying on our cognitive blind spot and vacuuming the highest-value clues off the board before we had a chance to gain our sea legs. But my response surprised me—by my second match, I was doing the same thing. What do you do when confronted by […]


In Watson, IBM Has Found Its “Neil Armstrong” Statement

TweetIn the sweep of Giant Killer contests – Hollywood notwithstanding – it would be hard to imagine that humanity would come in second to a computer in the nuanced world of context, puns and trivia. So we have to give credit to the newest entry in the Killing Giants lexicon: Watson, from IBM. Last night, […]