IBM’s ‘Watson’ will compete on Jeopardy in February

[steveklabnik]

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm’s-watson-will-compete-on-jeopardy-in-february

[RiderOfGiraffes]

This story has been several times over the week, although it's not sparked any discussion. In case you're interested, here are some previous related submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2016987 <- I think this is an exact duplicate

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009001

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010251

This much earlier submission has many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436625