You don't even want to know, they should have explained.
Jeopardy/Alexis C. Madrigal Humans talk funny. We invent words.
We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one
way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human.
Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who
programs machines to understand language. And so, when IBM's
famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-
winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a
great idea. Humans created this repository of slang, The Urban
Dictionary. For example, today on the site, we learn that
'healthy gas' is "the gas (fart) produced from a person who has
eaten healthy foods like cabbage, beans, broccolli, grains, or
other high fiber, high carbohydrate foods." Brown realized that
this formalization of informal language might be a great way for
Watson to understand the way real people communicate. So, he and
his team, fed the whole thing into their AI. But one problem.
Informal language has a tendency