IBM Computer May Be New Jeopardy Champ

machine. It is designed to be able to understand a question posed in normal speech, and respond with a precise, factual answer.

This is more than what search engines like Google and Bing do -- it has to find the correct answer itself. Software firms have produced question-answering systems for years, but they have been limited to simply phrased questions. Watson, however, was able to handle the format of the game show

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