Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter know how tough IBM’s Watson supercomputer will be to defeat when they compete heads-to-chips next week. With the honor of the human race at stake, here’s a look at the strategies they’re counting on…
Brandishing hardware and software optimized for understanding the nuances of natural-language questions, Big Blue’s ultra-brainy machine is preparing to face two flesh-and-blood champions of the TV game show. And if it also bri…
Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He’s a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.
Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He a…
Answer: This competitor will give Jeopardy! �ber-champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter a run for their money in 2011. Question: What is Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer? So have IBM’s scientists really solved the puzzle…
Jeopardy will have an unusual contestant next year – an IBM (IBM) computing system named “Watson.”
Watson will take on the show’s two most successful contestants, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (pictured left to right), in February, according to the sh…