Tuesday's competition began with Jennings who has the longest "Jeopardy! But Watson jumped in with the correct response: What is leprosy? He followed that with bang-on responses Franz Liszt, dengue fever, violin, Rachmaninoff and albinism, then landed on a Daily Double in the "Cambridge" category.
Watson said in his pleasant electronic voice. But Watson knew what he was doing. Watson blew his next response. It will be receiving all of its information electronically. This is an avatar. This is a representation of Watson. Watson, or course, is a sophisticated computer system too big and too heavy to fit behind that lectern on our stage.
As for the stage version of Watson, his brain-face was represented by a digital Earth that swirled with ribbons of various colors while he thought about questions. As Trebek read the clues, a bar graph appeared at the bottom of the screen, showing the top three answers Watson was considering at that moment and how confident he was in those choices.
The Jeopardy! Competing against Watson will be two of the most celebrated players ever to appear on Jeopardy! Ken Jennings broke the Jeopardy! Brad Rutter won the highest cumulative amount ever by a single Jeopardy!
The total amount is a combination of Rutter's original appearance in , plus three Tournament wins: the "Tournament of Champions" in , the "Million Dollar Masters Tournament" in and the "Ultimate Tournament of Champions" in Rutter and Jennings will donate 50 percent of their winnings to charity and IBM will donate percent of its winnings to charity.
This fall, Watson played more than 50 "sparring games" against former Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions contestants in final preparation for its television debut. In addition, Watson has taken and passed the same Jeopardy! Some people might look at this and be fearful -- as they see a computer that's getting smarter and smarter. Is there any part of you that's afraid of Watson?
I think there's a concern for jobs that this type of computer is going to take away, because if you have a job that's based on understanding English and then searching for answers, if you work at a telephone help line for example, this type of machine is going to elbow you out pretty soon.
It raises really serious questions about education and what we have to learn to make ourselves indispensable. But it also is the Sherlock Holmes' No. And it doesn't sound as threatening because people associate Watson as not the most intelligent guy in the world. IBM does these challenges to advance computing and also to blow its own horn.
And IBM has to compete for investment dollars and for brain power with other companies that are viewed as sexier, companies like Apple, Google, Facebook. And they have this huge services division, which is their biggest division, and they want to use this technology to sell to their clients. They were behind the chess computer, Deep Blue. And they also did Blue Gene , which was the fastest supercomputer at the time -- developed to decode the human genome.
I know the result. I've written my last chapter already and it's being added to the book right now, so I can't say. But before the match I had some comments about why Watson, some said, had an advantage Both of them would rather have had one human against two computers.
Two computers would fight over the same sorts of computer specialty questions. The thing it just really eats for breakfast is: Give me a letter word, ending in -le, that means whatever. Or take these 17 letters, what common nursery do they spell. So it just uses its computer smarts to do those sorts of searches very quickly.
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