If you were watching Jeopardy on February 14, 15 or 16, you would realize that one of the contestants was not human. In fact, it is not even alive. The contestant is IBM's new artificial intelligence computer system named 'Watson'.
The two other competitors are Brad Rutter, the biggest all-time money winner on Jeopardy and Ken Jennings, the record holder for the longest championship streak.
Watson comes equipped with access to 200 million pages of content, which consumes 4 terabytes of space. This includes the entire Wikipedia. However, Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game.
Throughout the games, Rutter and Jennings put up a good fight but Watson eventually won. The first place prize was $ 1000 000 with IBM dividing Watson's winnings between 2 charities. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter received $ 300 000 and $ 200 000 and pledged to donate half of the amount to a charity.
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