On Watson on Jeopardy

[xiphias]

In case you haven't see the results yet,

I bet Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings had some pretty mixed feelings at that match.

In order to be a Jeopardy champion, you have to have a good competitive streak, so they can't have liked losing.

On the other hand, in order to be a Jeopardy champion, you also have to be a pretty serious geek, and, to a pretty serious geek, a computer that can win at Jeopardy is really freakin' cool.

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Ken Jennings talked about that in an interview -- Watson didn't buzz in until it had a confidence level high enough to justify it, while humans do buzz in before they've completely figured it out, sometimes. He was talking about how that was part of his strategy against Watson.