Final Jeopardy

man vs. machine and the quest to know everything

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Stephen Baker: Final Jeopardy (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

268 pages

English language

Published Aug. 20, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

ISBN:
978-0-547-48316-0
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OCLC Number:
651912283

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Researchers at IBM launched a billion-dollar project to develop a machine that could compete in the quiz show Jeopardy--and win. The machine faced off in a high-ratings match against two former champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Journalist Stephen Baker carries readers on a captivating journey from the IBM labs to the showdown in Hollywood. The story features brilliant Ph.D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy masters--and a very special collection of silicon and circuitry named Watson. It was a classic match of Man vs. Machine, not seen since the chess-playing computer Deep Blue bested the world's reigning grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. And Watson needed to do more than churn through chess moves or find a relevant Web page--it had to understand language, including puns and irony, and master everything from history and literature to science, arts, and entertainment.--Adapted from publisher description.

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Subjects

  • Television
  • Database management
  • Semantic computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computers
  • Jeopardy! (Television program)
  • Watson (Computer)
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural language processing (Computer science)
  • Artificial intelligence