What are … our new robot overlords?
I had a pretty exciting Wednesday this week - helping IBM make computers smarter than humans. Designers at their Watson research facility in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., are designing a computer to play Jeopardy, and as a former contestant living in the New York metro area, they asked me to come "spar" with the machine. Turns out they were looking for average Jeopardy contestants like myself - those who...