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IBM Watson on Jeopardy

So I figure this is kinda relevant to such a computer-oriented community. For those of you who live under a rock (outside of the US), Jeopardy is a quiz game show that's been around for a few decades. It's pretty self explanatory... clues are worth a certain amount of cash.

IBM has been working on a supercomputer with some extremely advanced artificial intelligence to compete in a jeopardy game against two of the most successful players to ever appear on the show. The computer's name is Watson.
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Here's a vid from IBM from about 8 months ago demonstrating an early version of Watson.

On February 14-16th (next week) Watson will appear live on television to play the game. No one really knows what will happen... I personally think he's going to fist the humans so hard

For those of you thinking that it's a simple computer that just googles shit, it's much more intricate than that. Jeopardy clues are like miniature riddles, often with before and after, rhyme time, etc.
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Watson, if anyone wants to know what he\it looks like.

It'll certainly be interesting to see how well Watson does, especially against the likes of Ken and Brad.
Just watched it all, finally.
SPOILERS:
Watson won. Pretty crazy.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it, I'd recommend you do. It's some pretty amazing stuff.