Watson soundly beats the humans in first round of Jeopardy

Well, there’s one more round of Jeopardy to go, but the round that began yesterday and ended today was a major win for the silicon contingent . After starting the day tied with Brad, Watson barely let his opponents get in a word edgewise during Double Jeopardy, and broke the $36k mark before Final Jeopardy. Both Brad and Ken were able to double up on the Final Jeopardy question, at which Watson failed miserably, but he appended his answer (Toronto) with plenty of question marks, and bet less than a grand. The final result was Watson at $35,754, Brad at $10,000, and Ken Jennings with $4,800. This round’s scores will be added to the scores of tomorrow’s round to determine the overall winner, who will walk (or teraflop) away with $1 million in cash. Watson soundly beats the humans in first round of Jeopardy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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