[GATOR NAVY]

[PGR88]

interesting

[matginzac]

I, for one, enjoy Jeopardy and was thinking of trying out for it - until this computer match-up.
I think it’s total crap and that the other guys were chumps to sign up for it (unless they were promised mucho moola).
I refused to watch it...

[Jeff Winston]

IBM has bragged to the media that Watson's question-answering skills are good for more than annoying Alex Trebek. The company sees a future in which fields like medical diagnosis, business analytics, and tech support are automated by question-answering software like Watson. Just as factory jobs were eliminated in the 20th century by new assembly-line robots, Brad and I were the first knowledge-industry workers put out of work by the new generation of "thinking" machines. "Quiz show contestant" may be the first job made redundant by Watson, but I'm sure it won't be the last...

I understood then why the engineers wanted to beat me so badly: To them, I wasn't the good guy, playing for the human race. That was Watson's role, as a symbol and product of human innovation and ingenuity. So my defeat at the hands of a machine has a happy ending, after all. At least until the whole system becomes sentient and figures out the nuclear launch codes. But I figure that's years away.

[Reeses]

speaks in an uneven monotone, and has never known the touch of a woman.

It sounded like a male homosexual's voice. Why are HAL computers always gay?

[Dick Bachert]

I was impressed by Watson's performance — until I considered that “he” consisted of 2,800 typical PCs wired together in about a 400 square foot room and, including his 12 tons of COOLING equipment, probably weighed around 10 tons and was competing with a human consisting of a 3# lump of specialized nerve cells called a brain which was fully portable and was self-cooling.

I think it will be a long time before IBM can scale Watson down to anything as miraculous and efficient as we are.