# Watson Jeopardy! computer: Ken Jennings describes what it's like to play against a machine.

<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/my_puny_human_brain.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

When I was selected as one of the two human players to be pitted against IBM's "Watson" supercomputer in a special man-vs.-machine Jeopardy! exhibition match, I felt honored, even heroic. I envisioned myself as the Great Carbon-Based Hope against a new generation of thinking machineswhich, if Hollywood is to be believed, will inevitably run amok, build unstoppable robot shells, and destroy us all. But at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Lab, an Eero Saarinen-designed fortress in the snowy wilds of New York's Westchester County, where the shows taped last month, I wasn't the hero at all. I was the villain.

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