When you consider mashing up supercomputers and games, there's little doubt that many people think of IBM's Deep Blue Grand Challenge project--which beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a famous 1997 showdown--as the standard by which all future projects would be judged.
Now, IBM is trying to outdo itself with Watson, another supercomputer Grand Challenge that, this time, will attempt to beat the world's most successful players of the long-running hit TV game show "Jeopardy."
Eric Brown, a manager on IBM Research's Watson project, talked with CNET about building the computer that could beat the world's best 'Jeopardy' players.
(Credit: IBM Research) And while "Jeopardy" might not be the first game show to cross your mind as being worthy of a full-scale four-year IBM Research project, Big Blue thinks that the Alex Trebek-hosted show offers one of the most important natural-language processing challenges it has ever come across.
IBM has been working on--and talking about--the project, code-named Watson (see video below), for some time. And this fall, it conducted dozens of tests, pitting Watson against a series of former "Jeopardy" players to see if it was prepared to take on the best in the world.
And now, IBM has decided Watson is ready. On Monday, the company announced that Watson will take on two of the most successful "Jeopardy" players in history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, next February, in a bid to see if its computer is good enough to beat the best humans at this most abstract of word games, and demonstrate its natural-language processing utility for a wealth of other fields as well.
Yesterday, Watson Research Manager Eric Brown, sat down for a 45 Minutes on IM interview to talk about the program, and to tout the computer's chances of beating "Jeopardy" kingpins like Jennings and Rutter, who between them, won more than $5.75 million.
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