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Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself. Few challenges in computing loom larger than unraveling semantics, understanding the meaning of language.
One reason is that the meaning of words and phrases hinges not only on their context, but also on background knowledge that humans learn over years, day after day. Since the start of the year, a team of researchers at — supported by grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and , and tapping into a research supercomputing cluster provided by — has been fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human.
Its beating hardware heart is a sleek, silver-gray computer — calculating 24 hours a day, seven days a week — that resides in a basement computer center at the university, in Pittsburgh. The computer was primed by the researchers with some basic knowledge in various categories and set loose on the Web with a mission to teach itself. What's new on reddit: IBM Watson Research Team Answers Your Questions. Below are answers to your top 10 questions, along with some bonus common ones as well.
Thanks for taking the time to answer, Watson Team! 1. Could you give an example of a question (or question style) that Watson always struggled with? Researcher builds machines that daydream - Software.