[Web4lib] Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential implications for libraries?)

[Thomas Dowling]

On 02/07/2011 10:59 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote:
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> So, I wonder what question Watson would associate with the answer 42.

"How many roads must a man walk down?", obviously.  Sounds meaningful
without actually committing us to anything.

I expect the future Watson will sit around the library's staff lounge,
complaining, "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me
'Where's the bathroom?'  Call that job satisfaction?  'Cause I don't."


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Thomas ("All roads lead to THHGttG") Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu