Re: Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential implications for libraries?)

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:17:57 +0100 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

  B.G. Sloan writes

> What if we had sophisticated affordable "question-answering"
> machines in ten years? What would that mean for libraries?"

  Why would that make any change? The idea that people go 
  to see librarians to get questions answered is already
  many years out of date, isn't it? To get a question 
  answered you look it up on the web or you ask an expert.

  Cheers,

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