I only watched it the first night, last night I desperately needed alone time.
Watson will probably win. I'm actually pretty good at Jeopardy, in a home setting. I gotta admire the cool of the contestants, the pressure to succeed on national television must be nerve wracking.

That's the champs only saving grace - that Watson can get thing wrong.

Honestly, I wasn't very impressed. It would have been more impressive if Watson was like the size of a couch. At the size of a WWII computer, its no wonder he dominates. Not to mention in final Jeopardy he thought Toronto was an American city. Plus his steamrolling over the competition was pretty bland to watch. I did find it interesting that he struggled with the decades.

Well, Watson pretty much has it in the bag, he just needs to bet conservatively.

edit: :rofl: at Ken's comment after his answer

edit2: and Watson won, I thought so

This shows a significant lack of understanding of what's going on and why he is as big as he is. The vast majority of why he is so big is for him to understand natural language. He isn't querying a database, but making relational connections like a real human does. I'd be willing to bet the actual space devoted to the trivia database is extremely small, especially relatively speaking. The only reason he is winning is because IBM did a very good job programming Watson to understand English. If you watched Monday's episode, they showed just how bad he was originally before the final implementation of the programs that allow him to "understand" English.

Ken Jennings just won the Internet. And he wasn't even on it!

Jennings really kicked ass this time, but it just wasn't good enough (and he wimped out on his final jeopardy wager).

Like him, I too welcome our new computer overlords.

Edit: very nice. http://www.youtube.com/ibm#p/c/4F1C783776E708A8

Uh, yeah I know whats going on and I wasn't impressed. Again, if it was smaller then it would be nice, but I expect a huge computer to dominate humans. Heck, if he was the size of a home PC Id still expect him to win.

You obviously don't understand how demanding the software running was then. No way could a even a full-tower given the works be even a fraction as capable as a human when doing a semantic search. Human languages are arbitrary and don't have absolute rules:

"A little boy school"

Does that mean a school for little boys or a little school for boys only?

No, I just obviously wasn't entertained/impressed by it. I know how it works, its just not impressive to me in its current state. It still had several hiccups and WTF moments though.

Anyone who understands how computers work (which isn't at all like how humans think) and is not a native English speaker probably was.