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Jeopardy! holds first man-vs-machine trivia contest
William Atkins
Monday, 14 February 2011 00:23
On February 14-16, 2011, two of the greatest Jeopardy! champions do battle against an extremely smart IBM supercomputer called Watson. At stake is the ultimate title of King of Trivia and -- also important -- a prize of one million U.S. dollars.
The start of the contest is Monday, February 12, 2011 (Valentine's Day in the United States) and will continue over the next two days. Check your local TV listings for the airing of the show, or go to When To Watch.
Bradford Gates Rutter (aka Brad Rutter) has already won over $3.25 million playing Jeopardy!, the highest cash winner of all-time on the trivia game show. And, on the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (UToC), Rutter defeated Jennings.
Kenneth Wayne Jennings (aka Ken Jennings) has won more consecutive games on Jeopardy! than anyone else: 74 consecutive wins in 2004. His total cash winning is over $3.02 million.
The DeepQA-technology computer with abilities of advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation and reasoning, and machine learning technologies in the field of open domain question answering (aka Watson) is owned by the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). After five years of being developed, it runs on 90 servers, and was programmed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.
Having already beat Rutter and Jennings at a preliminary run of Jeopardy!, Watson is probably the favorite in the contest.
The winner of the contest will win $1 million, while the second-place contestant gets $300,000 and the third place guy or computer, $200,000.
IBM has already stated that it will give all of the money to charity, while the two humans will donate half to charity and keep the other half.
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