Machine Beats Man in Game Show Battle
Hundreds were put in jeopardy tonight at the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in upstate New York. But there was no danger. They were there to watch two humans take on a super computer named Watson on the TV game show Jeopardy!
Spoiler alert. The computer wins.
Bested by the super smart machine, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter–two top Jeopardy! winners–tried to outwit the computer but in the end machine dominated man.
Going into the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge, Chris Welty, a Rennselaer graduate and the man behind the machine didn’t think his next generation artificial intelligence could stand up to the brainpower of the two game show champions.
Dr. Welty says it was very hard to watch, especially when his creation failed to answer several questions. But those mistakes were few and far between.
Now the team that built Watson says they will try to apply this type of computer technology to medicine, government and law in an effort to advance computer-aided decision-making in those fields.
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