Watch your back Ken!
A: This Watson doesn’t back up Holmes, he plays Jeopardy.
The NY Times has an interesting article about IBM’s efforts to build a Jeopardy playing super computer.
It was just the beginning. Over the rest of the day, Watson went on a tear, winning four of six games. It displayed remarkable facility with cultural trivia (“This action flick starring Roy Scheider in a high-tech police helicopter was also briefly a TV series” — “What is ‘Blue Thunder’?”), science (“The greyhound originated more than 5,000 years ago in this African country, where it was used to hunt gazelles” — “What is Egypt?”) and sophisticated wordplay (“Classic candy bar that’s a female Supreme Court justice” — “What is Baby Ruth Ginsburg?”).
As a computer scientist, this would be interesting work.