Re: [school-discuss] Beowulf Cluster on Jeopardy?

[Bill Ries-Knight <steelhoof@xxxxxxxxx>]

Piping in after a lond sideline run.  the real issues are thee.  Data base content and indexing, hardware to maximize data flow, and algorithms and programming to simulate critical thinking.

That was the achievement of Watson.  The ability to simulate creative thinking.

Are there any AI folks someone is in contact with?

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now that IBM's supercomputer Watson has established
its superiority to humans in the game of Jeopardy . . .

http://www.slate.com/id/2284721/pagenum/all

. . . how long will it take the FLOSS community to
construct a Beowulf cluster . . .

http://www.beowulf.org/

. . . that can defeat IBM's best efforts?

Consider the benefits to such a project:

1. It would be an extremely educational experience
for the students who work on it.

2. The publicity would be fantastic, win or lose.

3. Any prize money won could go towards helping
out various FLOSS-related activities.

I'd like to see people's thoughts on this.

Joel

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