Thursday, February 24, 2011

Picture 47

Wednesday, Febtober 16th, 2011

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Watson, a computer designed by IBM to understand human language, played Jeopardy in a three day series against former champions Ken Jennings (who won 74 games in a row) and Brad Rutter (who never lost and won almost 3 million dollars). Dana took this picture of the end of the second game. Ken Jennings’ board read (after the correct answer), “I for one welcome our new robot overlords.” Watson beat them soundly.

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