[ExI] Watson On Jeopardy

[John Grigg]

Darren Greer wrote:
Another interesting detail. Ratings for Jeopardy have soared into the
stratosphere because of Watson. It moved into the number two spot in
TV land behind a Charlie Sheen sitcom last night.
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I can sense a trend where A.I. will be on more and more game shows,
and even "reality television" programs.  It would be a fascinating
trend to have humanity acclimated to A.I. by seeing the machines "grow
up" on their monitors and TV screens!  And so in time we will have our
Simone's and Calculon's...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1m0ne

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Calculon

John  : )


On 2/16/11, Darren Greer <darren.greer3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spike wrote:
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>>I hear Watson spanked both carbon units’ butts.
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> Woooohoooo!
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> {8^D
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> Life is gooood.<
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> Annihilated them Spike. App. 35,000 for Watson, 4000 for Jennings and 10000
> for Rutter.  He got final Jeopardy wrong but was parsimonious with his wager
> -- just 900 odd dollars.  Alex Trebek laughed and called him a 'sneak'
> because of the clever wager.  The category was which U.S. city has an
> airport named after a war hero and a WWII battle. Watson said Toronto. I got
> a good laugh. I didn't know we'd been annexed.
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> Another interesting detail. Ratings for Jeopardy have soared into the
> stratosphere because of Watson. It moved into the number two spot in TV land
> behind a Charlie Sheen sitcom last night.
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> 2011/2/16 spike <spike66 at att.net>
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>> I hear Watson spanked both carbon units’ butts.
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>> Woooohoooo!
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>> {8^D
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>> Life is gooood.
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>> spike
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