IBM supercomputer Watson debuts on Jeopardy tonight
Will Brinson
Monday night — Valentine’s Day no less! — that heartless bastard that is Watson, the IBM supercomputer, will storm your television and attempt to win “Jeopardy.”
He’ll be competing against an even more heartless (albeit less smart) sentient being: Ken Jennings, who you best know as the creepster who won a ton of Jeopardy shows in a row and laughed like Professor Frink.
Also there? Brad Rutter, who kicked Jennings’ ass, tournament-style.
These two guys are the cream of the crop in terms of rich Jeopardy dorks, and for three nights this week, they’ll be matching wits (not to mention the ability to fake laugh at Alex Trebek’s Canadian humor) with Watson over the course of two games.
Those two games will be split into three actual episodes, airing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
This is great news, as I have Thursday open, and that will make covering the domination of mankind by robots all the easier.
But, no, seriously: WHO YA GOT? (I vote robot.)
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