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Looks like the human race has some breathing space in our intelligence arms race with computers. Though supercomputer Watson beats the best human brains at quiz games, it can't use the iPhone app Siri. Take that, Watson. You'll never know where to find the best Thai restaurants in town. The question came up last night at an …

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  1. jai

    incompatible

    "It's not just the different ways they take input that makes the two incompatible."

    Is it not rather the very fact that both take (even require) input, that makes them incompatible?

    Both are designed to be given some data, and then do something with it.

    For a system to be compatible with Siri or Watson, it would have to be capable of coming up with a question that it wanted an answer to, without any prompting, and to be able to do something with the response, other than interpret it as a question.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Siri?

    Sounds foreign to me, why would Watson want to use it?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    No marriage imminent?

    I guess they'll just have to date for a while.

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  4. K. Adams
    Terminator

    WHEW

    THERE ISN'T ANOTHER SYSTEM

    (At least, not yet...)

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  5. David Pollard

    Hurry up

    Alan Turing's Centenary is next year.

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  6. LarsG

    DO WE......

    Really care?

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  7. Anonymous Coward 15
    Terminator

    What is "I slept with your mother last night, Trebek"?

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  8. ElNumbre
    Joke

    Does not compute...

    As compatible as Android and iPhone owners...

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