02-17-2011, 10:38 PM
Quote:Final score on 'Jeopardy!': Computer 1, humans 0
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
Wed Feb 16, 6:49 pm ET
NEW YORK âââ‰â¬Å Note to self: Never play "Jeopardy!" with a supercomputer.
That's a useful lesson for me or any mortal who has followed the Man vs.
Machine faceoff this week on the popular trivia game show, where on
Wednesday the second of two exhibition matches sealed the deal: Watson, the
IBM-created megabrain, officially buried his flesh-and-blood opponents,
veteran "Jeopardy!" champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
Watson's winning score was $41,413 for the day ($77,147 for both games),
while Jennings notched $19,200 ($24,000 overall) and Rutter reached $11,200
($21,600 overall).
For crushing his rivals, Watson gets a total prize of $1 million, which IBM
has said will go to the charities World Vision and World Community Grid.
The vanquished Jennings and Rutter get $300,000 and $200,000, respectively,
half of which each said they would be donating to charities...
http://jeopardy.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_e...g_jeopardy
500k dollars will go to World Vision. IBM CEO boasted that this is a
humanitarian organization, Indians know very well what humanitarian means for
world vision. Now IBM is partner in conversion activity in India.
India has a large IBM office. Will people living there protest against this?
http://bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2010...ashikumar/