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		alanfalcon on Feb 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Day 1: IBM Watson Ties for first on Jeopardy It would be quite entertaining, but that would mean either more permanently moving Jeopardy! filming to IBM's campus (cost prohibitive) or rebuilding Watson on Jeopardy!'s set (also cost prohibitive) and you see why this is just a three day exhibition match.

umjames on Feb 16, 2011 [–]

Understood.

Does anyone know what these IBM supercomputers ultimately are used for after they're done winning Jeopardy or beating Gary Kasparov? I'd imagine something top-secret for the US government, but it would be nice to know exactly what Deep Blue is doing now.

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