# IBM supercomputer destroys human contestants on Jeopardy

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**Created:** [January 14, 2011, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ibm-supercomputer-destroys-human-contestants-on-jeopardy/567579 "2011-01-14T09:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ibm-supercomputer-destroys-human-contestants-on-jeopardy/567579/61 "2011-02-11T16:57:11Z")

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This computer is not a significant step towards AI. It is a nice human-machine interface though. I can see Watson based routines/machines becoming an excellent digital butler someday. Think of how much better Ask Jeeves would have been if it had Watson’s natural language processing capabilities.

Enjoy,  
Steven

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