In case you missed it, an IBM computer named Watson took on the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time last week in an exhibition contest. Watson's victory has been hailed as the latest triumph of computing power, and welcomed by many as a sign of the future.
This week's video, which is admittedly a self-congratulatory marketing piece from IBM, nevertheless does a fantastic job of summarizing the Watson project and its implications. I think it's pretty cool. And I, for one (like Ken Jennings), welcome our new computer overlords.
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