An IBM supercomputer codenamed "Watson" just played two of Jeopard'y greatest human players and emerged the victor.
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two former champions of the TV quiz game show, went up against Watson in a practice match yesterday ahead of a live TV special. And while they were good, Watson — thanks to the 200 million pages of reference material, novels and movie scripts scanned inside his mighty mechanical brain — was better.
Capable of 80 trillion operations a second, Watson is also an expert at speech recognition, meaning he can listen to a question, analyse the words within, compare it to his programming and come up with an answer in around three seconds.
As the future becomes the present, I would like to praise our future Robot overlords. All hail the might robots!
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