{"id":1754,"date":"2011-02-17T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:19","slug":"jeopardy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/02\/17\/jeopardy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy! Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Jeopardy! Win, Experts Discuss Future Of Computers And Humans.<\/p>\n<p>The AP (2\/17, Robertson, Borenstein) reports IBM&#8217;s Watson computer soundly defeated its two human opponents in Jeopardy! &#8220;Watson&#8217;s victory leads to the question: What can we measly humans do that amazing machines cannot do or will never do?&#8221; The article offers responses from an array of engineers and scientists, including experts from IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, the Envisioneering Group, Portland State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, among others. &#8220;The next step for the IBM machine and its programmers: taking its mastery of the arcane and applying it to help doctors plow through blizzards of medical information,&#8221; among other potential applications for &#8220;technical support centers, hospitals, hedge funds or other businesses that need to make lots of decisions that rely on lots of data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mailview.custombriefings.com\/mailview.aspx?m=2011021701asee&#038;r=3688478-54e7&#038;l=001-5af&#038;t=c\">Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Jeopardy! Win, Experts Discuss Future Of Computers And Humans. The AP (2\/17, Robertson, Borenstein) reports IBM&#8217;s Watson computer soundly defeated its two human opponents in Jeopardy! &#8220;Watson&#8217;s victory leads to the question: What can we measly humans do that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/02\/17\/jeopardy-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}