"Wrapping up a three-day run on the Jeopardy game show, IBM's Watson computer has beaten two former champions in a historic match of man versus machine."
Its pretty amazing that a computer was able to beat out Jeopardy contestants. I am not amazed that it had the knowledge, but more amazed that it was able to solve Jeopardy's word puzzles and then build multiple answers and use statistics to choose the most probable answer, all in a short enough time to ring the buzzer. I believe given enough time any computer software/hardware could look up an answer. This took quite a bit of programming and architecture to pull the answer it so fast and accurately.
But then I wondered, why would a computer want to win Jeopardy. What would it do with the money (besides pay its PG&E bill)? What if it became self aware, lazy, and then started applying for government handouts as it watched Oprah and people's court all day long.
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