Bad news for all those rooting for a come from behind
victory for the fleshy mammalian underdogs.
Watson trounced Jeopardy’s top all time
winners, pulling in a cool $77,147 in winnings over three days. Ken
Jennings and Brad Rutter ended the tournament with a respectable (in human
terms) $24,000 and $21,600, respectively.
All three contestant managed to correctly guess the Final
Jeopardy answer, Bram Stocker (Answer: William Wilkinson’s “An Account of the
Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia” inspired this author’s most famous
novel)–Jennings even snuck a winking Simpsons homage into the response,
writing, “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
Nice try,
Everyone knows that it’s the giant ants that get us in the end.
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