the i.b.m. team, it wasn't encoding all of that knowledge that was a challenge, it was figuring out how to use natural language. so there uz there's things about "jeopardy" contestants that we take for granted turn out to be a lot of the challenge. so i think in some ways these contests throw a lot of interesting light on what's impressive about being a human being. >> rose: is watson significantly more powerful than the kind of computer that most of us use? >> oh, absolutely. yeah. >> it's an entire system that's taken four years and $30 million to build. all geared towards one single task, if you like, and there have been 25 to 30 ph.d.s working on this, some of the smartest people in their fields in the world. so you can imagine all that brain power brought to bear on playing one simple quiz show that gives you a sense of how far they've gotten. they've had to make break throughs not just in writing algorithms, the sort of basic tasks that term how this computer work but also how you line up

machine on jeopardy and as the third and final episode was aired last night we all watched man lose i.b.m. supercomputer question answering machine watson now ken jennings even wrote i for one it welcome our new computer overlords it's incredible stuff an artificial intelligence for a computer to understand respond to the human natural language and it can also be a scary one how long until your job is replaced by watson's offspring and i.b.m. has announced they're already planning on creating a position as a system service where doctors can ask questions to a cybernetic assistant there also discussion to create a version of watson that would be able to interact with consumers on subjects like buying decisions and even technical support to house a new computer age officially arrives where you want to discuss it is chris wilson associate editor at slate purse thanks so much for being here my pleasure you know this is kind of incredible kind of demoralizing or hard saying i think i want to do it and it was mostly exciting was there anything out there that really shocked you in watching this

martin cone of i.b.m.' i see a patient i'm collecting thoughts in all sorts of ways. the patient's body language, what their face looks like. watson is never going to replace that. >> reporter: i.b.m.'s catherine phrase. >> the benefit of a computer is it's very logical. it's probably its strong point is our weak point but the reverse is also true. the kind of response that a human has to music or to art, to a computer it's... its frequency and amplitudes. it can learn to analyze it but it can't feel. >> reporter: in other words, watson may rival the human brain but never the human heart. >> watson won jeopardy because it was pre-loaded with so much information and data. in fact if you printed it all out it would equal 200 million pages accessed in the blink of an eye. >> sure, watson may have made history but i wonder, how did it feel? robots long ago mastered the task of repetitive work, but the newest frontier doesn't involve robots exploring distant planets or making more cars or even beating you at mat

on jeopardy watson the i.b.m. computer program to analyze human speech ran away in the second round and fact it wasn't even close watson netted nearly thirty six thousand dollars in prize money and its two human competitors ken jennings had forty eight hundred dollars and brad rutter had a little more than ten thousand dollars so basically it was a rout the computer made a killing but i guess that we should lose all hope not feel completely useless just yet because watson did have a few problems including a big stumble in final jeopardy and the category was u.s. cities and the answer was its largest airport is named for a world war two hero its second largest for world war two battle and both jennings and rutter correctly answered chicago but not so much for watson now who are leader watson going in the final thirty six thousand six eighty one and the response was what is to wrong too with a lot of question marks which means of course that watson had many many doubts and the wager how much you're going to lose all

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ok it's time for show and tell everybody now last week we told you about i.b.m.'s watson the supercomputer that took on jeopardy's biggest winners and well absolutely schooled that so some say is a preview of what's to come computers becoming key players in games so we wanted to know which game do you think should be the next stage for battle between man and machine and here's what some of you had to answer on facebook on o'brien a good shoes is american a gladiator's scott jackson thinks it should be a family feud but tommy drug now hatfield says cells like they could use watson at the defense department now on twitter we heard from deserve the knowledge he says watson doesn't really understand the questions so pattern matching capabilities might be enough to play a game of go fish on you tube nine eighty seven chimes in with since watson is given to repetitive motion as in buzzing in a nice rhythm a challenge could be a reality speed game show hybrid who wants to milk a million cows now quaking i think you get the award for most interesting response in this segm

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square off, the record holder for consecutive matches won ken jennings and brad rutter taking on an i.b.m. computer named watson. >> watson? >> what is sauron? >> right. >> reporter: watson is a mega- mind of ten refrigerator-sized computer racks running at a speed of 80 trillion operations a second. but this is far beyond google. watson understands language the way we speak it. the difference between bat and bat, for instance. it analyzes the equivalent of a million books and whittles down hundreds of likely answers to the best one. >> understanding human language, being able to get into the nuance, the implicit nature of it, the ambiguities actually are very, very hard problems. >> reporter: the scientists here have filled watson with so much information it would take the typical human being 250,000 years to learn as much. but as the competition has proven so far, that makes watson smart-- not perfect. >> what are the '20s? >> no, watson? >> what is 1920s? >> no. ken said that. >> reporter: after the first of three nights, watson was tied for the lead with rutter and far ahead of ken je

in the top fifty most innovative companies in twenty eleven placed higher than clover like giants i.b.m. and microsoft fast company magazine who complied who compiled the list twenty six place in the list of the most innovative forms of the world this year was the first time ganders was included in the list noted for the process of searching bypassed amazon which took the second place in the next lots of the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. that wraps up the business board and joined me in one last time from. her. sister st still keeps it secret but starting to feel. the soviet silence. to me like i'm going to see. the official. touch from the. lights on the. video. feeds in the palm of your. question on the dot com. it's now at two thirty pm here in the russian capital. political reform with uncertainty in the middle east and north africa as the domino effect continues in libya is no country to see clashes on its streets. america's top military officials and god over the budget defense secretary robert gates warms the options would have tragic consequences but

jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i confidently expect within 10 or 15 years we will find emerging from the laboratories something not too far from the robot of science fiction fame. >> reporter: artificial intelligence is already here. it is used to make more accurate weather forecasts. it decides what movies and books you might like. but a comp

giants like i.b.m. and microsoft now fast company magazine which complied compiled this list put yandex at twenty six place in the list of the most innovative in the world this year this is the first time yandex was actually included in the list noted for its prowess in search systems have bypassed amazon which took second place in the last year the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. and russian entrepreneur u.-t. milner has successfully invested into social networking sites facebook groupon and zynga all on the aforementioned innovation list he's planning to invest in startups in russia d.s.d. global c.e.o. admitted he will be facing challenges but claims russian skilled labor is a key factor in this decision. other countries have had starts like us you know they're much more advanced in on the technology front but russia has a new ground in human capital it was the basic advantage if you look at the world championship in programming the russian teams won six out of the last ten

giants like i.b.m. and microsoft fast company magazine compiled the list put yandex at twenty sixth place in the list of the most innovative firms in the world this year this is the first time yandex was included in this noted for its prowess and search but bypassed amazon which took second place in the list last year the top three spots were taken by apple twitter and facebook. so for now we'll be back in one hour's time headlines are next with rory don't go away. download the official location. i pod touch from the champs to. life on the go. video on demand cheese minefield comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the russian. we go into the future are covered. it's not just after possible the headlines frustration with governments it reaches boiling point across the middle east and north africa as protesters push for change the same time though egyptians are starting to question the outcome of. the u.s. m

world after seeing watson school humans on jeopardy for the past three nights we're learning that i.b.m. is now creating assistance for doctors and other fields so chris wilson from slate is going to join me this gus this potential robotic apocalypse that's at the end of the show though now let's move on to our top story. this week marks the one year anniversary of the u.s. military offensive in marjah in the helmand province in southern afghanistan it was called alteration muster up and it was the largest military operation in afghanistan since the fall of two thousand and one it was announced through a massive p.r. campaign reported the world over marjah was meant to signify a new escalation of our war effort to target the taliban secure key population centers but despite what the obama administration and military officials have been saying as they try to sell this idea of progress helmand province where marjah is located saw insurgent attacks double just in this year and about the fact that the u.s. has now spent at least two billion dollars a year to keep the area secure and then th

he's served in the past as director of internet technology and strategy at i.b.m., and worked on technology policy in the clinton white house and at the f.c.c. in your story the james government xwhanded powerful instruments of control, it owns the pipelines that carry information across the country and out into the world. so in layman's terms. with what are those pipelines and what exactly did the government do to shut them down? >> well, usually we think of the internet as being everywhere and nowhere, something you can connect to no matter where you are and something that routes around damage. but when you control the pipelines you can actually shut the internet down, particularly if there are very few of those pipelines and in egypt it was sort of the revenge of the plumbers, if you will. there were very few port portholes to the outside world. the government through its state-owned company controlled those portals and by shutting them down they severed egypt from the international internet. >> brown: as you wrote much of the traffic in and out of egypt was centered around one building

that's the subject of tonight's edition of "nova," as scientists prep i.b.m.'s watson supercomputer for a challenge against "jeopardy" champions. "nova" airs on most pbs stations. the "newshour's" science correspondent miles o'brien faced off in his own trial match against watson. he reveals the outcome in an exclusive online interview. >> miles, how did you do? >> well, let's just say hari, it wasn't elementary, my dear watson. it was really ugly. watson absolutely creamed me and scraped me off the floor. >> holman: you can watch that interview online and tune in for miles o'brien's story on man versus the machine on monday. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll have the next of margaret warner's reports from egypt. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small bu

jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i confidently expect within 10 or 15 years we will find emerging from the laboratories something not too far from the robot of science fiction fame. >> reporter: artificial intelligence is already here. it is used to make more accurate weather forecasts. it decides what movies and books you might like. but a comp

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