It’s an old sci-fi staple that computers would one day be better than humans at everyday tasks.
Well, the syndicated show Jeopardy found that computers were better than humans when it comes to playing that game.
Here’s the story from myway.com:
>>Final score on ‘Jeopardy!’: Computer 1, humans 0
By FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Note to self: Never play “Jeopardy!” with a supercomputer.
That’s a useful lesson for me or any mortal who has followed the Man vs. Machine faceoff this week on the popular trivia game show, where on Wednesday the second of two exhibition matches sealed the deal: Watson, the IBM-created megabrain, officially buried his flesh-and-blood opponents, veteran “Jeopardy!” champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.