It Was Machine Over Man In Jeopardy Computer Contest

If you were watching Jeopardy this week you got to see perhaps a preview of what is to come for mankind and his inevitable decline into second place when it comes to the war between man and machine. The show this week featured the two best Jeopardy players in the games history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, pitted against an IBM computer named "Watson" to see who could end up on top. By the end of the first day of the three day competition it was not a blowout yet. "Watson" had a lead but not an overwhelming one. On the second day "Watson" started to blow the humans away. The computer dominated game two from the start and never let up. By the end of day two the computer had a $30,000 lead over his human rivals. The second day was basically just "Watson" answering all the questions that Alex Trebek put out there while it left the humans in the dust, that's how dominant it was. On the third and final day "Watson" basically kept it up but stumbled a couple of times with wrong answers and that allowed Jennings and Rutter to beef up their totals a little bit but it was still not even close. The final winnings were "Watson" $77,147, Ken Jennings $24,000, and Brad Rutter $21,100. The beat down of the humans was so total that contestant Ken Jennings at one point in the third day scribbled on his computer screen a quote that read: "I for one welcome our new computer overlords." The funniest line that I heard about the show came from late night host Jimmy Kimmel who said of the competition that: "Watson" crushed both guys, gave both of them wedgies, and took away their girlfriends."