IBM SUPERCOMPUTER WINS JEOPARDY PRACTICE ROUND: TELEVISION AND WORLD TO FOLLOW
If you've watched any of the NFL playoffs this season, you would see that IBM has been hyping the hell out of their new supercomputer, Watson (named after the beloved and now very dead founder of IBM Thomas J. Watson), and how it has the ability to analyze human speech and find answers to questions asked to it.
Yesterday, the machine was put to the test as IBM invited journalists to watch Watson go a practice round with Jeopardy's two reigning champs, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in preparation for its television debut on the popular game show on February 14, 15, and 16th.
The results?
In pure evil sci-fi fashion, Watson came out on top with a final score of $4,400 then decapitated the inferior beings to his left and right with retractable buzzsaws declaring them obsolete...
Ok not really...but did anyone else notice its eerie silence during the children's books section?! By the way, have you ever taken the letters of I.B.M and thought of the letters that come before them?
Be afraid.