Tag: jeopardy

  • IBM’s Watson Beats out Human Rivals

    IBM’s Watson Beats out Human Rivals

    IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, won $1 Million, and beat out two of the best Jeopardy players in history after a 3 night marathon. Watson was able to accumulate $77,147 during the game, while Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings collected $24,000 and Brad Rutter a mere $21,600. Ken Jennings is known to have won a total of 74…

  • Jeopardy Champions Unable To Beat IBM Super-Computer

    Jeopardy Champions Unable To Beat IBM Super-Computer

    Watson has become known as the new Jeopardy champion in his debut performance on the show.  Watson can be described as highly intelligent, extremely polite, thin, bald, and a little on the heavy side.  Watson is of course, the IBM Super Computer that was developed to take on the Jeopardy champions Brad Rutter and Ken…