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History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
The documentary describing how its journey:
Smartest Machine on Earth | NOVA | PBS Video

It's on Jeopardy right now!

History in the making!

Watson is the smartest computer in the world according to the the Turing standards.

Edit: This is real history. Embrace it my fellow humans. This truly is a breakthrough.
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Re: History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
I missed it here on the east coast at 7. Let us know how it fares against Ken and Brad tonight. I will have to tune in tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Re: History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
It tied with Brad at $5,000. and Jen was left in the dust at about $2,200
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Re: History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
i watched part of this episode tonite and saw that watson ended up getting 4 questions wrong in a row but i had to do something else so i didn't see any thing after that
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Re: History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
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i watched part of this episode tonite and saw that watson ended up getting 4 questions wrong in a row but i had to do something else so i didn't see any thing after that
If you watch the Documentary, there are some types of questions that Watson had problems with. You noticed most "years" were under 50% every time.
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Watson is a pretty bro computer.
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Re: History In the Making: Watson on Jeopardy!
It was an awesome show! I saw the NOVA but missed the first Jeapordy episode. Watson is soo cool! i want one
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