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Do you also think that IBM Watson won Jeopardy primarily because of its ability to reason?

Or due to its massive internal database combined with superhuman button pressing skills?

As far as I know Watson was actually smoke and mirrors, relying on a ton of human hand written rules and didn't do any reasoning at all. It was a giant program written in PROLOG, not machine learning.

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