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		ajays on Feb 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight This is not true, apparently. Watson gave the same answer as another contestant (Ken).

pbhjpbhj on Feb 15, 2011 | [–]

The contestant said "20s", IBM Watson said "1920's" - both were wrong but one can see how Watson didn't recognise that the answer was the same, it wasn't.

timerickson on Feb 15, 2011 | [–]

Assuming the speech recognition software didn't simply fail, and that it in fact, does not exist.

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