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  • The Internet's Candid Conversation With Ken Jennings

    Smited human representative and world record holding Jeopardy Ken Jennings participated in an "online discussion with Reddit":http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/, known within the community as...

  • What Some of Our Thoughtful Human Friends Think About Watson

    h3. _Some thoughts from Sherry Turkle, Jason Silva, Ben Huh, David Weinberger, Ray Kurzweil, Kenneth Livingston, Zach Kanin, Rita King, J-Bot, Doug Rushkoff, Tim Hwang, Shane Hope, Paola Antonelli, Tim Wu, Stuart Watson_ Is anyone really surprised...

  • Robots Better Not Mess With My Shows Again

    I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’m assuming that I’m the only one who DVRs Jeopardy, so if you missed the trifecta of Watson episodes this week, you’ll probably never see it anyway. Well, in a surprising turn of evens, Watson, the super computer...

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  • Welcome, Our New Computer Overlords

    After yet another convincing defeat, Ken Jennings, the winningest human Jeopardy player of all time, could be seen wringing the mock neck of Watson's avatar. The machine had prevailed, having left its human contenders with nary a chance or a hope.

  • How to Design the Face of a Supercomputer: Video

    The swirling, colorful face of IBM’s Jeopardy-machine Watson is part pure representation--of answer confidence, for example--part branding, and, to hear the creators tell it, art. Personally, I think it would have been best to line up Watson’s 1...

  • Meet, Cower Before, Watson, the Computer That Beats You At Jeopardy (Video)

    This week marks the 15th anniversary of Garry Kasperov's monumental match against "Deep Blue":http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/, in which computers most famously schooled humans at chess. And it's the 14th anniversary of the would-have-been rematch...