And no, we don't mean to say that Big Blue is in trouble the company is going to create a system that will compete with humans on the popular TV show

How clever can you get? This is a question that computer scientists like to contemplate into the wee hours of the morning. But getting the definition of clever is tricky. Once upon a time, a clever computer was one that could play chess and beat a human preferably a world champion. This record was created when Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997.

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