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Second episode airs Tomorrow night, and the final episode the next day.
Jeopardy! (Season 27.23-1) - Ken, Watson, & Brad [Pt.1 of 3or4]
2/14/2011 - Here is Monday's episode of Jeopardy! as we start our IBM challenge with a supercomputer codenamed, "Watson". We have returning champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against "Watson" for a $1,000,000 prize. Here is part one of day 1 of the IBM challenge.
Jeopardy! (Season 27.23-1) - Ken, Watson, & Brad [Pt.2 of 3 or 4 ]
2/14/2011 - Here is part two of day one of the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge. Please subscribe to the Rashad8821 channel to watch day two of the IBM challenge.
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'What is Leg?': 'Jeopardy!' Supercomputer Debuts With Some Weird Answers
By Lindsay Robertson, The Set | Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:15 AM
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The long-awaited three-night "Jeopardy!" face-off between the show's biggest past champs and IBM's supercomputer Watson began last night, and the thing did pretty well, but not without a few hiccups (like the inability to understand a human appendage).
After dominating the first part of the game, Watson ended up tied with Brad Rutter, who famously has won the most money on "Jeopardy!" ($3.25 million) with a score last night of $5000. Ken Jennings, who has had the most consecutive wins on the show (74) trailed with $2000.
Because the three-night event is an exhibition game, last night's game was short so that Trebek could explain Watson's rather complicated artificial intelligence system and take us on a tour of the computer's home at IBM in suburban New York. The computer seen next to to the contestants is just an avatar, and the real one takes up an entire room and consists of ten linked servers representing the power of 2,800 PCs.
A few observations about this first night of Watson:
— Watson had at least two funny flubs. After Ken Jennings gave an incorrect response to a clue, the computer buzzed in and said the exact same thing. The program also answered "What is leg?" to a clue about an unusual Olympic athlete. ["What is leg?" is already a bit of a catchphrase on Twitter
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Ken Jennings Jokes About 'Jeopardy!' Loss and Ends the Show With Clever 'Simpsons' Quote
By Lindsay Robertson, The Set | Thursday, February 17, 2011, 7:26 AM
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Well, it's all over and IBM's Watson won a million dollars for charity. A predictable ending to a fun, if not roller-coastery "Jeopardy!" event. (I'm sure the show is hoping to keep some of their millions of new viewers for tonight's annual Teen Tournament.) The most interesting part of last night's final show wasn't the computer's triumphant win, however. It was a joke, by Ken Jennings, a human! (And turns out, he's full of jokes about Watson.)
Realizing neither he nor Brad Rutter could possibly beat Watson at the final "Final Jeopardy," Jennings added a little note to his correct answer: 
The line is, of course, from a classic Season Five (1994) "Simpsons" episode, "Deep Space Homer," in which humanity appears to be threatened by a race of giant ants. News anchor Kent Brockman reports the news solemnly, and then takes a surprising turn. It's still really funny so watch it again, for the first time:
Despite moments where it looked like he was about to throw the buzzer at Watson (and on last night's show, he made the inevitable "unplugging Watson" quip), Jennings has had a great sense of humor about the entire thing. Yesterday, in a very funny essay about his Watson experience for Slate called "My Puny Human Brain," Jennings joked that "Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human 'Jeopardy!' player: It's very smart, very fast, speaks in an uneven monotone, and has never known the touch of a woman."
So we humans, about to be enslaved by robots, can at least thank Ken Jennings for taking us out with humor and class. (Interestingly, "The Simpsons" was the answer to a clue earlier in the same game. But, of course, it was Watson who got it right.)
Previously: "What is Leg?": "Jeopardy!" Supercomputer Debuts With Some Weird Answers
