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Computer Defeats Japan's Top-Ranked Human Shogi Player

Computers have been beating humans at games for a while now. Remember IBM's Deep Blue, which beat chess champ Gary Kasparov way back in 1997? More recently, IBM developed a supercomputer that could defeat a human at 'Jeopardy.' Despite these advances, computers haven't overthrown the human race -- yet. But, according to The Mainichi Daily News a computer dubbed Akara 2010 recently defeated ...

Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-Playing Computer, Trumps Humans

Readers, IBM has been developing a supercomputer that could compete with human brainiacs on the quiz show 'Jeopardy' -- and it scares the hell out of us. Let's forget, for a moment, that we've been transported back to 1997 when IBM's Deep Blue machine beat world-champion Garry Kasparov in a chess match, solidifying both hopes and fears that computers would one day outsmart their creators. (And ...