Thursday, February 10, 2011

Computer Faces Humans On Jeopardy Monday

On Monday the IBM computer named "Watson" will face off against past "Jeopardy" champions. It's not the first time a computer has tackled humans. In 1997 IBM's "Deep Blue" defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Artificial intelligence expert and inventor Ray Kurzweil [[ KURZ-wyl ]] predicted the "Deep Blue'" win and expects "Watson" to do the same. Kurzweil tells "USA Today" if it doesn't win it will be close and will be victorious in the future because computers get better, while humans don't. Kurzweil expects computers to eventually be inside our bodies and brains and says as a result we'll be a very different civilization.