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AI at IBM

  1. playing chess
  2. playing Jeopardy!
  3. writing New Yorker cartoon captions

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 12th, 2011 at 7:58 am and is filed under Everyday Humor, magazines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “AI at IBM”

  1. Nansen Says:
    February 12th, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    item 3 seems unrelated to either AI or IBM…

  2. TomGinTX Says:
    February 12th, 2011 at 7:51 pm

    That will be the next challenge for computers, after chess and Jeopardy: understanding the cartoons in the New Yorker. 8-)

  3. Seth Roberts Says:
    February 12th, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    item 1 = past AI at IBM = showing that a computer can play better chess than any human. item 2 = present AI at IBM = showing that a computer can play better Jeopardy than any human. item 3 = future AI at IBM = teaching a computer to write better captions to New Yorker cartoons than any human. My Spy article, to which item 3 is linked, hints there is a formula because there is so much repetition. I wrote another Spy article that showed Jay Leno and David Letterman several times told the same joke. Indicating there is a formula for their jokes.

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