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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Woohoo! Watson wins!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/16/jeopardy.watson/index.html?hpt=T1">http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/16/jeopardy.watson/index.html?hpt=T1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeopardy isn’t over however. It is only a matter of time before a competing team wants to play machine against machine, or even a three-way all machine matchup. Note that there are today about a couple dozen top chess computers cheerfully pummeling each other, with the results being broadcast for all the worlds people with far too much time on their hands to watch in pointless fascination. Those games are in some ways more interesting to watch than human-human or human-machine games, because they tend to be so technically clean and positional, so theoretical.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can imagine there are already teams working to whoop Watson’s butt.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>