{"id":650911,"date":"2013-04-05T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74297"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:05:14","slug":"how-did-supercomputer-watson-beat-jeopardy-champion-ken-jennings-experts-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650911","title":{"rendered":"How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings? Experts discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ken Jennings (left) faces off against supercomputer Watson (center) and his fellow Jeopardy champion, Brad Rutter (right).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Perhaps you know Ken Jennings by name, perhaps you simply know him as \u201cthat guy with the winning streak on Jeopardy<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 In 2004, this trivia enthusiast won an incredible 74 consecutive times on Jeopardy<\/i>, setting the record as the classic game show\u2019s most winning contestant and securing the Guinness World Record at the time for \u201cmost cash won on a game show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KenKen Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all<\/span><\/a>In today\u2019s talk<\/a>, he shares how he became obsessed with trivia as a young child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember being able to play Trivial Pursuit against my parents and hold my own,\u201d says Jennings in this talk, given at TEDxSeattleU<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a weird sense of mastery you get when you know some \u2026. Beattles factoid that dad didn\u2019t know. You think, \u2018Aha. Knowledge really is power.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2011, however, Jenning\u2019s legacy changed when he accepted a match against the IBM supercomputer, Watson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty confident that I was going to win,\u201d says Jennings of how he felt going into the match. \u201cI had taken some Artificial Intelligence classes and I knew there were no computers that could do what you need to do to win on Jeopardy<\/i>. People don\u2019t realize how tough it is to write that kind of program that can read a clue in a natural language like English — to understand the puns, the red herrings, to unpack just the meaning of the clue \u2026\u00a0 I thought, \u2018Yes I will come destroy the computer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not exactly what happened. To hear how the match what down (interestingly, Jennings said it had an energy far more like a basketball game than a game show) and the profound lessons Jennings learned from it about the state of knowledge, watch<\/a> this hilarious talk.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Jennings-Watson showdown in 2011, TED hosted a panel of IBM experts and insiders about the supercomputer and its Jeopardy<\/i> victory. Below, see the discussion between Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine<\/i><\/a> author Stephen Baker, Watson\u2019s principal investigator Dr. David Ferrucci, IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley and Columbia professor Herbert Chase.<\/p>\n

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So how did it feel to lose to Watson? Jennings shares in this talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt obsolete,\u201d he reveals. \u201cI felt like a Detroit factory worker in the \u201880s seeing a robot that could now do his job on the assembly line. I felt like \u2018Quiz Show Contestant\u2019 was now the first job that had become obsolete under this new regime of thinking computers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ken Jennings (left) faces off against supercomputer Watson (center) and his fellow Jeopardy champion, Brad Rutter (right). Perhaps you know Ken Jennings by name, perhaps you simply know him as \u201cthat guy with the winning streak on Jeopardy.\u201d\u00a0 In 2004, this trivia enthusiast won an incredible 74 consecutive times on Jeopardy, setting the record as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}