My father has played chess for decades. Now that he is retired he teaches chess classes.
He taught me the basic moves when I was two. I would move the pieces around for a couple moves, and then reach over and take his king!
I've been fascinated by how people have been able to program computers to beat chess masters.
It sounds like it may be harder for computers to win at Jeopardy - How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy!
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For decades, humans have struggled to create machines that can extract meaning from human language, with all its messiness, subtle context, humor, and irony. Traditional approaches require a great deal of manual work up front to render material understandable to computer algorithms. The ultimate goal is to make this step unnecessary.
IBM hopes to advance toward this objective with Watson, a computer system that will play Jeopardy!, the popular TV trivia game show, against human contestants. Demonstrations of the system are expected this year, with a final televised matchup--complete with hosting by the show's Alex Trebek--sometime next year. Questions will be spoken aloud by Trebek but fed into the machine in text format during the show.
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I wonder if they will bring back Ken Jennings?
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