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PB speaker and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings recently appeared on Jeopardy! again – but this time his competition was not human, but rather an IBM “supercomputer.”
PB speaker and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings recently appeared on Jeopardy! again – but this time his competition was not human, but rather an IBM “supercomputer.”Watson, as the computer is named, was designed specifically to play the game of Jeopardy! The idea, which may at first seem strange, began when a few IBM researchers saw Jennings during his record breaking 74-game run on the show.
The special (which ran over three nights) ended with Watson at an astounding $77,147, crushing his human opponents. Despite this Jennings was able to keep his spot as the top human Jeopardy! player, beating out Brad Rutter with $24,000.
While some may see this as a loss for the humans, Jennings believes it should really be considered a victory, saying “That was Watson's role, as a symbol and product of human innovation and ingenuity. So my defeat at the hands of a machine has a happy ending, after all.”Read more about Jennings’s history making appearance on Jeopardy!
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