IBM's Watson AI trumps humans in "Jeopardy!"
"The only way to program a computer to do this type of mathematical reasoning might be to do precisely what Ferrucci doesn’t want to do -- sit down and slowly teach it about the world, one fact at a time."<p>I'm wondering what the resistance to this is.  Each and every one of us has been through exactly that process.  Do we really think that we can create a knowledgeable mind out of whole cloth?<p>It seems what we need to do is teach an artificial-mind everything we know, slowly, once, and then it can teach all the artificial minds everything it knows in the blink of an eye.