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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…
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Can a Machine Beat Veteran Jeopardy Champs?
Between February 14 -16, the popular show, Jeopardy will pit IBM’s intelligent machine ‘Watson’ against some of Jeopardy’s past champions Ken Jennings who has won 74 straight games, and Brad Rutter who is all the time money winner for Jeopardy, with $3 million in earnings and an 20-0 record, according to CTV. IBM, through 20…