IBM's supercomputer Watson racked up $5,000 in winnings on day one of the three-day Jeopardy! challenge Monday, but so did one of its human competitors. The human champs, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, face long odds -- at least according those betting their own money on the action.
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter know how tough IBM's Watson supercomputer will be to defeat when they compete heads-to-chips next week. With the honor of the human race at stake, here's a look at the strategies they're counting on to outwit the ultra-brainy black box.
The FCC is investigating whether producers for the Fox trivia game show fed answers to young contestants. If so, it would be a near-inevitable consequence of the way televised fiction and nonfiction have melted into each other over the last few years.
