Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all

Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all


Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the U.S. game show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against supercomputer Watson -- and lost. With humor and humility, Jennings tells us how it felt to have a computer literally beat him at his own game, and also makes the case for good old-fashioned human knowledge.

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