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2011/11/15 IBM Watson talk at the Computer History Museum and Jeopardy Game

π 2011-11-15 00:00 in Public

The Watson team came to give a talk at the computer history museum, and it was interesting to learn about how it was planned and the challenges they faced.

After the talk, they had Watson play a game, and it kicked ass. Despite severely helping the humans (see the video below), it won by a lot.
It was also interesting to see the top choices that Watson had found and its confidence level for each answer it gave:

A few pictures and video of most of the game:

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