{"id":890,"date":"2011-01-13T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtom.wordpress.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-01-13T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:31:10","slug":"this-is-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/this-is-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS IS “JEOPARDY!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you not familiar with the game “Jeopardy!<\/a>” it’s a simple game of trivia between three\u00a0contestants. The host (Alex Trebek<\/a>) reads a clue, and the contestants must answer with a question (e.g. “What is…”). For each correct answer, they\u00a0receive\u00a0money and for each incorrect answer they lose money. After two rounds, the game enters into “Final Jeopardy” where the\u00a0contestants\u00a0are given a topic and allowed to wager as much money as they have accumulated throughout the game. This is where the famous theme song<\/a> comes into play. The contestants are given the clue and get 30 seconds to write their answer down.<\/p>\n

Why all the facts about Jeopardy you ask? Well remember back in 1997 when a computer made by IBM dubbed “Deep Blue<\/a>” defeated the world\u00a0renowned\u00a0chess champion\u00a0Garry Kasparov? Well, IBM is back at it again. They’ve created Watson, a supercomputer built to play Jeopardy!<\/p>\n

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Wired covered<\/a> the announcement that the games will air in February. A one round practice round was conducted and after 1 round Watson was beating Ken by $1,000. Wired reported that after the practice round “[n]one of the three contestants appeared rattled. Of course, Watson lacks the capacity to get rattled.”<\/p>\n

I’ll be sure to set my TiVo to record these episodes. Am I smarter than a supercomputer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you not familiar with the game “Jeopardy!” it’s a simple game of trivia between three\u00a0contestants. The host (Alex Trebek) reads a clue, and the contestants must answer with a question (e.g. “What is…”). For each correct answer, they\u00a0receive\u00a0money and for each incorrect answer they lose money. After two rounds, the game enters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[61,94,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}