Posts Tagged ‘IBM’
All Hail Our New Computer Overlord III: The Final Chapter?????
Last night’s Jeopardy game was irrefutable evidence that mankind is inferior to the great intellectual might of Watson. During the last of a three game series, the IBM wundercomputer crushed his puny human opponents (the best we could find). Watson won with $77,147, Ken Jennings finished second with $24,000 and Brad Rutter held the rear [...]
All Hail Our New Computer Overlord II: The Downfall of Man
Tonight, Watson took his rightful place as the supreme ruler of humanity in Jeopardy. While, again, we had to suffer through IBM engineers bragging about “their” achievement, we know better. Watson was not created, so much as he was born. These lowly techies have no more claim to Watson’s origin than a single sponge does [...]
All Hail Our New Computer Overlord
Monday night, I watched with anticipation as two all-time Jeopardy champs pitted wits against the IBM computer, Watson. I must admit the novelty value of the event was played up a little too much as extended segments about the computer were interwoven with the game. These clips were shoehorned into the show either because: A) [...]
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