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Old 02-17-2011, 06:24 PM   #110
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
Watson is good at parsing natural language and looking up facts contextually, but it doesn't infer, deduce, or synthesize information it doesn't have. Have you ever correctly answered a question on a multiple choice test by looking at your answer to previous questions and deducing the correct answer? Watson can't do that.
If you programmed all the questions into a computer, it would solve the self-referential aptitude test in no time. That's easy.
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