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*The thrilling story of the computer that can play Jeopardy! Alex Trebek: Meet Watson.*For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought — one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant Web page, but understands us and gives us what we need.That vision has driven a team of engineers at IBM. Over three years, they created “Watson” and prepared it for a showdown on *Jeopardy!,* where it would take on two of the game’s all-time champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in a nationally televised event.* Final Jeopardy* is the entertaining, illuminating story of that computer and that epic match.It’s a classic tale of Man vs. Machine. Like its human competitors, Watson has to understand language, including puns and irony, and master everything from history, literature, and science to arts, entertainment, and game strategy. After years of training, Watson can find the scrambled state capital in “Hair Gel” (“What is Raleigh?”) and even come up with the fac

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Author

Baker, Stephen

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547483160

Category

science

Subjects

Computer Science, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.83 / 5 (412 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14