IBM Computer beats humans on Jeopardy
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Humans had reasonable luck playing chess against IBM’s Big Blue, but TV games shows must be right up the artificial intelligence makers street. IBM’s SuperComputer, ‘Watson’ beat contestants with impressive resumes on Jeopardy.
New video from Engadget shows IBM’s Watson question-answer supercomputer putting the hurt on Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings (74 wins in a row, during his heyday) and Brad Rutter ($3.25 million won, the most cash ever awarded on Jeopardy). Although there’s some reprieve for humanity’s two representatives: The filmed round was designed to give them a little practice against Watson, and it’s not as if the loss was a total blow-out. Watson ended up with $4,400 in Jeopardy cash (what will he/she/it purchase?), Jennings took second with $3,400, and Rutter placed third with $1,200.
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I would be interested to know if the programmers knew of the type of questions beforehand. When Big Blue beat that world chess player, the program was optimized to the player.
It’s the complete random concepts that would seem to befuddle ole Watson.
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Very interesting piece. There is much speculation about what the next 100 years will bring by way of computer technology.