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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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Date: 2011-02-17 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com
Ken's comment on that: "Believe me, I was enjoying (almost) every second. Getting beat on the buzzer is frustrating, but are you kidding? I AM PLAYING A PRIME-TIME GAME SHOW AGAINST A SUPER-ADVANCED ROBOT! This is the coolest thing I will every do in my life by a factor of a million. The future is here."

From a chat he did at http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html?hpid=talkbox1

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Date: 2011-02-17 12:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
By the way, were you involved in any way with this? I'd heard that they did practice matches against former Jeopardy contestants, and was wondering if they'd tapped you. I couldn't remember if you had any IBM connections.

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Date: 2011-02-17 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com
Nope. Still haven't made it on the show, although per an in-person audition back in November, I'm in the contestant pool through May 2012. I strongly suspect at this point I'm probably the record holder for most passed the test tryouts without getting on the show.

I did work at IBM for a summer back in 1980, and they did make me a fulltime offer, which I turned down. The closest I came to this was that Ed Hovy, a natural language understanding researcher who had a short clip on Tuesday show, is both a former AI grad school classmate and co-worker of mine, although we've not been in touch in years.

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Date: 2011-02-17 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com
Okay, Ken Jennings is a remarkably funny man.

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Date: 2011-02-18 05:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patgreene.livejournal.com
Ken Jennings is an absolutely delightful man. I had the um, privilege? of being trounced by him during his run in 2004. I loved his comment on Final Jeopardy!

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