jeopardy
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Not Even Jeopardy Contestants Know What the Metaverse Is
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only person who’s lost a lot of money on the Metaverse. On Thursday, three additional public figures made the mistake of betting their cash on the concept. All of the contestants on the April 20, 2023 episode of Jeopardy failed to correctly answer the final prompt of the game, and all…
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Cheers To Whoever Snuck In That Star Trek Reference On Jeopardy
Image: CBS Jeopardy! hasn’t been a stranger to covering Star Trek before, but this episode might take the prize for hiding, in plain sight, one of the coolest The Next Generation references we’ve ever seen on the show.
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The Smartest Computer In The World Also Has The Dirtiest Mouth
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.
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Donate To The Charity That Watson Denied Money From
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 that to charity).