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On ‘Jeopardy!’ 15 Years Ago, IBM’s Supercomputer Watson Beat Ken Jennings & Brad Rutter
Watson, IBM’s AI, won a three-episode Jeopardy! challenge against champions Jennings and Rutter, earning $1 million for charities and demonstrating advanced natural-language capabilities.
- About 15 years ago, IBM's Watson defeated Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised Jeopardy! challenge.
- IBM developed Watson over roughly three years and ran it offline using millions of stored documents, then set up mock Jeopardy! games in December 2010 to prepare for the televised match.
- Key wagers decided Final Jeopardy, with Watson scoring $35,734, Rutter $10,400, Jennings $4,800, and Watson leading by more than $30,000 after Double Jeopardy.
- Contestants walked away with prizes, with Watson's total $77,147, and the charities received $500,000 each, while Jennings and Rutter earned six-figure sums and charity donations.
- Years later observers noted the match's cultural impact, as viewers anthropomorphized Watson, even though IBM later faltered and AI capabilities advanced beyond 2010, as reported by The New York Times.
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