It’s man vs. the machine.Yes, we’ve been talking about this since June, but the time is nigh. Computers are going to take over the world Jeopardy. As we mentioned again in December, IBM’s supercomputer, named Watson, will take on other real human contestants in everyone’s favorite game-show, “Jeopardy.” The show is set to air in February, and the tapings will begin tomorrow.
Watson will be competing with trivia-masters Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. IBM and Jeopardy gave us a sneak peak today of the three contestants whipping through three categories in no time at all. Every question was answered correctly, but guess who came out on top at the end of the round? That’s right, it was Watson.
According to Wired,
“The system is powered by 10 racks of IBM POWER 750 servers running Linux, and uses 15 terabytes of RAM, 2,880 processor cores and can operate at 80 teraflops. Watson scans the 2 million pages of content in its ‘brain’ in less than three seconds. The system is not connected to the internet, but totally self-contained. The machine is the size of 10 refrigerators.”
So, will Watson reign supreme in the real showdown? Tune in to find out.
[Photo Credit: Wired]
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