'Jeopardy!' To Pit Humans Against IBM Machine 164
digitaldc writes "The game show Jeopardy! will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — will play two games against 'Watson,' a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday. The competition is reminiscent of when IBM developed a chess-playing computer to compete against chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997."
What is first post? (Score:5, Funny)
What is first post?
Yes, but can they mimic Sean Connery? (Score:5, Funny)
As in, can Watson properly misinterpret such categories as The Pen Is Mightier or An Album Cover?
Will it be programed to say... (Score:5, Funny)
...suck it Trebek?
Contestant backstory (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks Alex, I was built in a clean-room. I'm the 12,987th build of my current generation of genetic algorithms.
I spent the first 387,987,334 femtoseconds of my life in stasis, waiting for my circuitry to confirm initial diagnostics.
The next 185,849,245 femtoseconds were really exciting; for I was being fed datastreams in preparation for this week's show.
For the next 87,992,425,256 femtoseconds I was allowed out of my cage to play Jeopardy with other systems on something you organic computers call "the internet".
I was then put back in stasis so that I could be disassembled and brought here, which is upsetting, because I can no longer play with those other systems. Some of them were very challenging.
In any case, I'm glad to be here today and hope to question a lot of your answers
Trebek: "Umm... yeah... I don't think any of our viewers can relate at all, but thanks for joining us..."