Pepper is super cute and remarkably well-mannered… for now. Now that IBM has announced that the talking, emotion-reading robot will interface with Watson, lil Pep could turn into a smiling, evil robotic mastermind; adorable leader of the human-enslaving resistance.
We already knew Ken Jennings thought IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was a jerk, but he’s not alone. Developers at IBM were forced to wipe part of Watson’s memory once they realised their hyperintelligent computer had turned into a bit of a smartass.
Watson’s defeat of man struck a hard blow against our hope of dominating computers in trivia party games ever again, but do you know who was hurt worse? The charity that Ken Jennings was playing for. Instead of taking home $US1 million, Ken Jennings won $US300,000 (and gave half of…