IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"
The machine gained fame when it beat two human contestants on the US quiz show Jeopardy last year.
By comparison, IBM's massive Watson computer, which beat two human rivals on "Jeopardy!"
It was once believed that computers could never beat the best human at chess, because computers perform very inefficient brute force attacks on problems, instead of relying on intuition and hierarchical structures like our brains do.
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At the time, many of us were uncomfortable or even incredulous at the prospect that a machine might actually beat a man at this uniquely human game.
So far the antiresearch crowd has forced the company to close a small operation that distributed primates in the U.K. Remarkably, antivivisectionists have not pursued Foster in the U.S. A bigger challenge to preclinical research may be to beat out such competitors as Covance, which originally specialized in human clinical trials, and MDS, a provider of contract drug discovery services.
Like the balky human hearts its pacemakers regulate, results at Medtronic ( MDT) sometimes skip a beat, but the medical device giant is now so over-sold that it deserves a look by long term-minded investors.
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