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DID THE SINGULARITY just happen on Jeopardy? The Singularity is a process, more than an event, even?

By Glenn Reynolds

DID THE SINGULARITY just happen on Jeopardy? The Singularity is a process, more than an event, even if, from a long-term historical perspective, it may look like an event. (Kind of like the invention of agriculture looks to us now). So, yeah. “In the CNN story one of the machine’s creators admitted that he was a very poor Jeopardy player. Somehow he was able to make a machine that could do better than himself in that contest. The creators aren’t even able to follow the reasoning of the computer. The system is showing emergent complexity.”

UPDATE: Come with me if you want to live.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 16, 2011 (boomark / email).