Hired! IBM’s Watson Finally Gets a Job, Will Move Out of Parents’ Basement Watson, the super computer from IBM that went head-to-head with the two greatest Jeopardy! champions and mopped Alex Trebek’s bare upper lip with them, has been hired by an insurance company so that it can diagnose people’s diseases. Read more More
Intelligence in Congress?! New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt Beats IBM’s Watson Congressman Rush Holt actually beat the supercomputer Watson in an exhibition game of Jeopardy! We don’t know which is more surprising: that a human was able to beat the supercomputer or that there are actually intelligent members of Congress. Read more More
Does Watson Think a Poor Workman Blames Yogi Berra? Let’s take a deeper look into the mind of IBM’s super computer… Read more More
It’s Man vs. Machine: IBM’s Watson Makes Long-Awaited Debut on Jeopardy! Tonight The Watson Cometh: Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter are humanity’s last hope. IBM’s super computer Watson will makes its long-awaited debut on the hit game show on Monday night. Read more More
Autonomous Quadrocopters Might Be Figuring Out How to Kill You What you’re about to see is simultaneously one of the most creative uses of a Christmas present and one of the most terrifying omens of the demise of the human species. The incessant buzzing alone is enough to keep you up at night. Read more More
Aaaaand, We’re Screwed: Watson Already Beating Up on Fleshy Jeopardy! Opponents Well, shit. It appears that IBM’s supercomputer Watson is schooling his genius opponents in test runs for the mid-February Jeopardy! battle between man and machine. Wannabe Genius says he’s not looking forward to enslavement. Read more More
Watson Cometh: Ken Jennings Is Humanity’s Last Hope Go ahead and mark down February 14th on your calendar (trust me, you’re free) as your first taste of shiny metal slavery. That’s the day that IBM debuts Watson. Will it beat the Great Ken Jennings in a three-day Jeopardy! tournament? Read more More