Future friend : Teaching machines to think the way people do has been a controversial topic. Pictured is Watson, a system that can answer questions posed in natural language over a nearly unlimited range of knowledge.
VANCOUVER: An X Prize unveiled promised millions of dollars to a team that could best show that artificial intelligence is humanity's friend, not its enemy.
X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and the newly-appointed head of Watson at US technology veteran IBM David Kenny challenged software savants to demonstrate "how humans can collaborate with powerful cognitive and AI technologies capable of solving some of the world's grand challenges."
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