Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century. IBM's Watson Supercomputer Defeats Humanity in Jeopardy. It's official: The machines are smarter than mankind, at least when it comes to Jeopardy.
IBM supercomputer Watson has emerged victorious against its human competition in a three-day competition between the massively intelligent machine and two of Jeopardy's greatest champions: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Yesterday, the competition wasn't even close, with Watson earning $35,734 and his human competitors earning a combined $15,200. Today though, humanity — specifically Ken Jennings — gave Watson a run for its money. At one point during the third day of competition, Jennings (a 74-time champion) was up $15,000 to Watson's $11,673. However, it wasn't even close in the end; Watson earned a total of $77,147.
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