Articles tagged "jeopardy"

NASA's latest recruit for its PSAs is Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. But is this enough to give the agency the publicity it needs and deserves?

Smited human representative and world record holding Jeopardy Ken Jennings participated in an "online discussion with Reddit":http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/, known within the community a…

h3. _Some thoughts from Sherry Turkle, Jason Silva, Ben Huh, David Weinberger, Ray Kurzweil, Kenneth Livingston, Zach Kanin, Rita King, J-Bot, Doug Rushkoff, Tim Hwang, Shane Hope, Paola Antonelli, Tim Wu, Stuart Watson_ Is anyone really surprised…

I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’m assuming that I’m the only one who DVRs Jeopardy, so if you missed the trifecta of Watson episodes this week, you’ll probably never see it anyway. Well, in a surprising turn of evens, Watson, the super computer…

After yet another convincing defeat, Ken Jennings, the winningest human Jeopardy player of all time, could be seen wringing the mock neck of Watson's avatar. The machine had prevailed, having left its human contenders with nary a chance or a hope.

The swirling, colorful face of IBM’s Jeopardy-machine Watson is part pure representation--of answer confidence, for example--part branding, and, to hear the creators tell it, art. Personally, I think it would have been best to line up Watson’s 10 ser…

This week marks the 15th anniversary of Garry Kasperov's monumental match against "Deep Blue":http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/, in which computers most famously schooled humans at chess. And it's the 14th anniversary of the would-have-been remat…