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watson? >> what is jericho. >> correct. >> reporter: well enough to play jeopardy at the highest level. with top money winner brad rudder and ken jennings who won 74 games in a row in 2004. jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i confidently expect within 10 or 15 years we will find emergin

what does watson do for an encore? as jim axelrod tells us, it's already in training for a new line of work as dr. watson. >> reporter: forget lady gaga and her egg. the biggest splafn on tv last week-- >> this is "jeopardy!." . >> reporter: was made by a game show contestant. no, not these guys. this guy. >> seems to have a split personality. >> who is hyde. >> yes. >> reporter: watson, iba's super computer which took on two of "jeopardy!'s" all-time champs and crushed them in a man versus machine match-up which carried some scary implications. >> i, for one, welcome our new computer. . >> reporter: no matter how much we chuckled about it. in the world of artificial intelligence watson is a superstar, able to sift through 200 million pages of content in three seconds to figure out complicated "jeopardy!" clues. >> it helps us appreciate our brains, our cognition, how we solve problems, and how incredible the human mind and the human body is. >> reporter: but ibm's m's engineers and computer scientists didn't develop w

. >> hello, my name is watson. >> reporter: the machine, watson, named after the founder of ibm. he is the equivalent of 2800 computers and uses thousands of processors. >> that's a more straightforward question, right? >> reporter: jp allen of the university of san francisco says don't forget, this is also a moment to celebrate human intelligence. >> you're talking about millions of dollars of technology, 42 geniuses working for 4 years to get this working and still, it's competing against a guy who had a sandwich for lunch. >> reporter: since watson can't hear he receives the message by text message. at lightning speed he posts up three possible answers picking up one that has his highest confidence level even though his pronunciation can be off. >> watson? >> what is [ indiscernible ] >> that's correct. >> reporter: watson's start was startlingly impressive. >> what is stick? >> stick is right. and with that -- >> reporter: by the end. first round, watson had racked up $5,200. ken jennings who has won millions on the program had only $200. in the second round, as the questions

the machine, watt ton, named -- watson, named after the founder of ibm.e's the equivalent of 2800 computers and uses thousands of processors. it has counseledless -- countless knowledge. it the most super of super computers ever produced but he says don't forget this is also a moment to celebrate human intelligence. >> you're talking about millions of dollars of technology to get this working and still it's competing against a guy who had a sandwich for lunch. >> since watson can't hear, he receives the questions by text message. he posts up three possible answers picking the one that has the highest odds. >> what is -- >> that is correct. >> tonight as students in boston and others watched across the country, watson's starts was startlingly impressive. >> what is stick. >> by the end of the first round, watson had racked up $5,200. in the second round as the questions became more difficult, the humans came back. >> well, you can see it's struggling with some of the more acbigious questions, right after jennings made that incorrect answer and so did watso

computer named watson. >> watson? >> what is sauron? >> right. >> reporter: watson is a mega- mind of ten refrigerator-sized computer racks running at a speed of 80 trillion operations a second. but this is far beyond google. watson understands language the way we speak it. the difference between bat and bat, for instance. it analyzes the equivalent of a million books and whittles down hundreds of likely answers to the best one. >> understanding human language, being able to get into the nuance, the implicit nature of it, the ambiguities actually are very, very hard problems. >> reporter: the scientists here have filled watson with so much information it would take the typical human being 250,000 years to learn as much. but as the competition has proven so far, that makes watson smart-- not perfect. >> what are the '20s? >> no, watson? >> what is 1920s? >> no. ken said that. >> reporter: after the first of three nights, watson was tied for the lead with rutter and far ahead of ken jennings. >> i sort of felt like i wanted to win as badl

watson? >> what is jericho. >> correct. >> reporter: well enough to play jeopardy at the highest level. with top money winner brad rudder and ken jennings who won 74 games in a row in 2004. jennings' amazing run caught the nation's attention including i.b.m. executives who were looking on for a follow-up to their man versus machine triumph. the computer they called deep blue beat the grand master in a celebrated tournament in 1997. they wondered if a machine could beat the best humans at jeopardy. >> we knew it would be hard. we knew it wouldn't be easy but to have an opportunity to get the resources to sort of push the limits in advance of technology was just irresistible. >> reporter: getting machines to truly understand language is the holy grail of a field called artificial intelligence. you know, making computers more like us. able to comprehend, learn and solve problems. in the early days of computing, it seemed so easy. >> i confidently expect within 10 or 15 years we will find emergin

tech support and i think i'd actually prefer to talk to watson over some of those people. considering the rate some mistakes that. were due wasn't me i'll actually take i think it's not about what do you think but let's say the average consumer of people like you and i that now we're just not going to be satisfied with our laptops and our i pads and whatever we have now and we've seen what technology can really do you want to know why better products are now on the market possibly but you know a lot i mean if you think about how many of the things that we do involve just kind of searching a huge amount of information often text based the most obvious example being a google search google's amazing and we all use it and we all love it but you still get a lot of responses that you don't want because particularly for kind of complicated questions it's just hard to free is what it is you're looking for you know it's not so much google's fault that it doesn't know where to find things it's sort of both of our faults that we don't know how to talk to them and so if we can sort of

not out to crush us, watson is out to help us.you see a day when watson can stand beside a doctor and help the doctor with the diagnosis? >> absolutely. that's exactly the vision. >> reporter: what does watson's brain look like? 2800 core processors behind the scene. equivalent of ten refrigerators. the sound back here deafening. there's one other question, what about the buzzer? did watson have an unfair advantage? they told us here today that he can buzz in .01 of a second. there's no question that watson had a buzzer advantage. lot of people are saying that. >> right. it's true. >> reporter: we asked for a rematch. ready to beat him at the buzzer. >> on january 17th robbers made off with $2.7 million from this brinks building near this city's charleston bridge? >> boston. >> jfk was shot as his motorcade passed through this outdoor plaza? watson? >> what is dealy plaza. >> correct. >> david? >> what is baghdad? >> nicely done. good. >> reporter: ahead, conveniently, i then called it quits. not sure where the game is headed or w

watson won $1 million.s of customers. prosecutors say johnson netted $480,000 by skimming credit card information as a part-time ticket agent for american airlines. they say johnson used the information to buy $100 gift cards from grocery stores and then used those cards to buy expensive gadgets she sold on-line. she is being held on $1 million bail. she could face as much as 48 years in prison. >>> more weather now. some tricky driving conditions. we want to show you a live picture. >> there is an advisory on the san mateo bridge because of the extremely slippery conditions. >> there was hale and they are inching along on the bridge. >> in fact there have been three accidents within the past 20 minutes there. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking it all for us. she is here with the latest on radar. >> and chp issued a high wind advisory as well. looking at doppler hd there is still heavy rain developing. they come in and dump heavy rain and they are done in a matter of minutes. we are watching a cell

>> watson? >> what is 1920s. >> no. ken said that. >> in the future watson will be able to hear and his first application will be to assist doctors in diagnosing patients by listening and using its vast source of knowledge. san francisco, alan wang, abc 7 news. >> as you watched the program, you saw what ken jennings wrote on his answer, i for one welcome the computer overlord. you know what, he doesn't have his way but i'm sure ibm is working on that, too. >> the engine problem that's forcing honda to recall 700,000 compact cars. >> a familiar scene in the middle east this morning. this time in bahrain. demonstrations have turned deadly after hundreds of police stormed into the central square firing tear gas and rubber bullets. the area is now in lockdown. i'll have the latest in a live report. >> also an interprizing 8th grader with the benefit of the giants' world seseseseseseseses@ dinner's ready! it's french's crunchy onion chicken! (announcer) for a quick and easy dinner crush french fried onions. dip chicken in e

watson? >> kind of big to put on the space station. >> that one. the rain and wind certainly not done with the bay area yet. we're on the storm watch with live team coverage next at 5:30. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live on esplanade avenue in pacifica where the erosion problem is so bad two apartment buildings were evacuated a couple years ago. but what's going to happen today could make everything even worse. the story coming up in a live report. >> and san jose mayor chuck reid plans to deliver the state of the city address. next at 5:30, the message he's expected to deliver. >> if you're headed out of town today, right now no delays at sfo but we've got the wet and windy weather here on the west coast. the only airport delay is in atlanta this morning but definitely probably some delays if you're headed to the mountains with a winter storm warning going into effect this morning all the way into 4:00 saturday morning. if you need more information, check our flight tracker to see if your flight'

watson, 125 billion.ssed up to a point. >> i said, when you can develop a computer that can come up with original thought, that can make me laugh and that have emotion, then i'll stare worrying. but that's a long way down the line, folks. that will take a while. >> reporter: t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >> despite the victory, watson's main creator says he sees human intelligence consuming machine intelligence, and not the other way around. >> jennings took the defeat in stride. alongside his correct final answer, he wrote, i, forone, welcome our new computer overlords. >> i hope this doesn't go to watson's head. >>> that's what's making news in america on this thursday morning. >> get more news all day at abcnews.com. >> have a great thursday, everybody. ♪ >>> good morning. we have some heavy rain headed our way, gusty winds and snow on in our bay area. >> with the wet conditions, we've got ponding on the roadways, look out for that, especially the bay bridge toll plaza. a high wind advisory for the

they call it watson.s the latest in a man versus machine battle that has been raging since the term "artificial intelligence" was coined back in 1956. >> it was a gimmick but not completely. >> reporter: a computer science professor saying "jeopardy" wasn't a bad choice for ibm. >> many people have watched the show and tried to answer the questions for themselves. more specialized here. this is something people say, wow, this computer can really do this. >> let's finish t.v. >> reporter: it was impressive. >> to be honest i think it is mind boggling even to many researchers in the field. >> reporter: so what exactly is watson? here in the cbs5 tech center, these servers allow our newsroom computers to link up and talk to each other. watson is made up of almost three times the number of servers taking up ten racks and two refrigeration units. but beyond a game slow where does watson's technology merge with our daily lives. saying medicine has a great potential. so does replacing those automated answering s

on jeopardy watson the i.b.m. computer program to analyze human speech ran away in the second round and fact it wasn't even close watson netted nearly thirty six thousand dollars in prize money and its two human competitors ken jennings had forty eight hundred dollars and brad rutter had a little more than ten thousand dollars so basically it was a rout the computer made a killing but i guess that we should lose all hope not feel completely useless just yet because watson did have a few problems including a big stumble in final jeopardy and the category was u.s. cities and the answer was its largest airport is named for a world war two hero its second largest for world war two battle and both jennings and rutter correctly answered chicago but not so much for watson now who are leader watson going in the final thirty six thousand six eighty one and the response was what is to wrong too with a lot of question marks which means of course that watson had many many doubts and the wager how much you're going to lose all

take that, watson.with watson, abc news, new york. >> that was clever. >> i wonder why they built this technology. they say they want to build it for areas that need a lot of data analysis, health care, government, and so it will go to more -- >> and he got to the buzzer a lot faster. that was one thing. we also realized, he's a skilled better. fdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfd [ female announcer ] why watch regular tv when you can experience the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price. go now to the website below and get u-verse tv starting at just $29 a month for six months, dvr included. or get up to $300 in a promotion card with a qualifying u-verse bundle. u-verse tv lets you record and play back your favorite shows in any room. and you can record up to four shows at once on a single dvr. you can even upgrade to over 155 hd channels and growing. get ready for a new kind of tv service. so order at&t u-verse online now. go now to

to move watson into the medical suite.losion in modern medicine threatens to overload doctors, making them less effective. >> watson can go find information that will directly impact on your understanding of the patient's diagnosis or provide a series of different treatment options that are suitable for your particular patient. >> reporter: the technology could bring a specialist's expertise to the primary care level and help prevent diagnostic mistakes says dr. martin cone of i.b.m.'s health care division. >> when i see a patient i'm collecting thoughts in all sorts of ways. the patient's body language, what their face looks like. watson is never going to replace that. >> reporter: i.b.m.'s catherine phrase. >> the benefit of a computer is it's very logical. it's probably its strong point is our weak point but the reverse is also true. the kind of response that a human has to music or to art, to a computer it's... its frequency and amplitudes. it can learn to analyze it but it can't feel. >> reporter: in other words, wats

here now a sample of what watson sounded like during the match. >> what is eleanor rigby. what is leprosy. who is the church lady. >> yes. >> hedge hodgepodge for 400. >> most jeopardy contestants who win are thrilled. watson, of course, didn't know he won, can't feel thrilled. he or it can't feel anything at all. watson did make a few embarrassing mistakes along the way, naming toronto, for example, as a u.s. city, but still he earned $1 million for charity. the humans he defeated to get to the winner's circle should remember it took humans to program watson in the first place. >>> the nbc family has lost a veteran member and long-time friend. bill monroe has died. he was at one time our nbc news bureau chief in washington, and from 1975 to '84 moderator of "meet the press." a proud native of new orleans, a veteran of world war ii, bill monroe was the very first news director at our station in new orleans, wdsu, during the civil rights era, and he aired some ground-breaking weekly editorials supporting the integration of the city schools. it was an unpopular position at t

. >> hello, my name is watson. >> reporter: the machine watson, named after the founder of ibm. he is the equivalent of 2800 computers andrewss thousands of processors. >> that's a more straightforward question. >> reporter: jp allen from san francisco says this is also a moment to celebrate human intelligence. >> you're talking about millions of dollars of technology, 42 geniuses working for four years to get this working and, still, it's competing against a guy who has a sandwich for lunch. >> reporter: since watson can't hear he receives the questions by text message, at lightning speed he posts up 3 possible answers picking the one that has his highest confidence level even though his pronunciation can be off. >> what is va va birdie. >> reporter: tonight his starts were startlingly impressive. >> stick is right. >> reporter: by the end of the first round he had racked up $5,200. ken jennings who had won millions on the program had only 200. in the second round as the questions became more nuanced and difficult the humans came back symptoms. >> you can see it struggling with

they are not threatening. >> what's next for watson?bm hopes to use the technology to help doctors diagnose patients. as he said, ibm is not getting into the game show business. in san francisco, kiet do, cbs5. >>> chances are you felt it. a winter blast walloped the bay area with rain, wind and even snow today. and a cbs5 viewer sent us this clip. that is hail pounding his home this afternoon. roberta has been watching this latest storm move into the bay area. >> dana, that storm number 2 was so slow to get here but now it is slow moving out. this is the post frontal precipitation and i have been receiving reports all night of hail and now just into our cbs5 newsroom, this particular cell right here has caused a tremendous amount of problems on the san mateo bridge. heavy downpours consisting of hail has caused several accidents. we are look flag it. another area of concern that 586 corridor in the dublin pleasanton area. we will continue to track the storm with our pinpoint weather forecast. >>> just tonight the government approves a

. >> and a whipping from watson.ing up what's next for ibm's supercomputer and why do the people who built it say there's still room for improvement. >> what's really in the soda we drink. why some people are raising flags about the color of cola. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live in pacifica where elements of erosion are showing up on the same day. wind, rain, big surf and ♪ >>> good morning. delays at sfo over two hours this morning. we've got breezy winds around the bay area and rain throughout the morning hours into the afternoon hours. sierra light snow today. partly cloudy in los angeles but temperatures mainly in the 40s to the north with snow above 2,000 feet lake county and mount hamilton today. kristen? >> lisa, thanks a lot. 6:42. armed patrols and tanks are patrolling the streets of bahrain this morning, the latest center for political protest in the middle east. abc's reporting at least five people have been killed. jenelle wang is live in the news room with the latest developments. >> kristen, the military in

unless watson figures this out first. >> we shall see.>> pretty big storm is heading this way. >> watson happens to agree this next system is going to be stronger. you can see this is is a big pull of cold air. right now we're looking at a straight hin of scattered showers and there is some activity up in napa county. and as we saw it's a wider area there then a half hour ago z looking south ward into mountains there is a line of light scattered shower activity. it's cool up there temperatures only 50 degrees or so. we'll see that heavy rain moving south ward and eastward and the south bay and monterey bay will be late to see the rainfall arrive. it's moving slowly. here is the accu-weather forecast. heavy rain tomorrow. into tomorrow night and overnight into early wednesday. cold air arrives producing light snow. and then there are scattered showers for the remainder of the week and a dry weekend coming up. >> thank you. >> coming up next return of the defending champ autos giants pitchers and >>> hearing and memory tonight at 9:00 losin

watson? >> what is las vegas? >> correct. >> rose: the technology behind watson could one day be used to enhance our daily lives. joining me from philadelphia, brian christian who wrote an article about artificial intelligence for the "atlantic" magazine and he wrote a book called "the most human human." from san francisco, richard waters, the west coast bureau chief of the "financial times." i'm pleased to have both of them here to talk about this fascinating subject. what does this say, this highly publicized event between i.b.m. and jeopardy contest contestants? >> charlie, like all things in artificial intelligence, it means everything and nothing. it's always very easy when you see a demonstration approved for how far technology has got to leap forward that extra mile and see all the way to the end of the road and the potential it opens up. you have to pull yourself back and you have to say this is quite a striking thing and that it's not everything. and so what it shows is that something people thought a few

gulf we go where bubble watson has broken into the world's top twenty players following victory at the farmers insurance open the big hitting american seeing off another left hander phil mickelson torrey pines on sunday mickelson had entered the final round joint alongside bill haas bus watson had overtaken both men by the eleventh hole left the state in touch with the birdie of his own on the same green moving to within a shot along with this man in last week's bob hope classic champion rookie jonathan v. house watson was unstoppable though saving par on seventeen before moving on to birdie the last sealing his second p.g.a. tour win in the process mickelson was second with the house market dustin johnson joint third. the top of the mountain in women's tennis is now represented by the most diverse group of athletes yet the w.t. writings featured ten players from ten. different countries for the first ever time but russian of arizona behind belgian kim clijsters who in turn is looking up to dana carline wozniacki the summit's. francesca schiavone really and some of their stories are at

you would think this would be a slam-dunk category for watson, and yet watson wagered just $947 and gotday, so let's play the jeopardy! round. and here are the categories. we start off with... watson, start us, please. the european union for $200. what is istanbul? $800, same category.

they pitted a super computer watson against the two most successful jeopardy human players ever, watsonrushed them. [ cheers and applause ] . i guess he's a big deal. my calculator for instance has been able to spell the word "boobs" upside down for words. watson did very well. a few times it was way off the mark. it thought toronto was in the united states. which it isn't. it's in canada. one other time, watson was even wronger than that -- >> ken? >> what is he only had one hand? >> no. watson. >> what are wall russ testicles. >> no. [ laughter ] watch "jeopardy" tomorrow night. it's in indication. sflmplts f you have been watching our show at any point over the past couple of weeks, i have been do nating a lot of energy to a cause. i'm involved in a battle against some authorities who are trying to prevent the citizens of ft. wayne, indiana from naming a new government building after this man. >> more than 20,000 people voted to name after former mayor harry baals. >> the harry baals government center. >> the harry baals government center. >> former mayor harry baals. >> harry baals.

watson. >> what is stick. >> stick is right. and with that, you add to your lead, you're at $5200. >> as the first day ended, watson was tied for the lead with one of his human competitors. >>> straight ahead, your tuesday morning weather. and in sports, the new number one college basketball team probably won't stay at the top. new number one college basketball team probably won't stay at the top. i'm katie and this is george. i'm allergic to cats. [ male announcer ] we asked zyrtec® users what they love about their allergy relief, and what it lets them do. i love that because of zyrtec®, we can all stay together as a family. [ male announcer ] we bet you'll love zyrtec®, too -- or it's free. he really has a very special relationship with his cat. a fiber that dissolves completely, is clearly different. benefiber. it's the easy way to get more fiber everyday. that's the beauty of benefiber. and give it a whole new life! with the aveeno nourish plus moisturize collection. the only hair care with active naturals wheat formulas, th

budman, nbc bay area news. >> i won't hold it against ibm. >> watson. >> i know. i like it. >>> it is cold and rainy and windy. >> it sure is. no matter how good these computers are, they cannot tell you the weather like we can. nbc bay area weather team, top in the market. let's look at san francisco. do not adjust your tv screens. this view right now is shauk arou shaking around. gusting into the 30s. looking right toward the bay bridge, doing any traveling across our bay bridge, golden gate bridge, san mateo bridge, you'll need to reduce your speed out there. the storm system continues to push to the south. it has been slow moving, too. dragging its feet across northern california. the northbau bay is starting to push in. also tomorrow morning, dangerous tide levels. we call it king tide. you can get more on nbc bay area doc. right around 9:23 tomorrow morning, is when this king tide will coincide with the hi tide. it will produce possibly minor coastal erosion and even some flooding. otherwise, wind advise, oh winds 20 to 40 miles per hour. winds 15 to 25 mile

you know tonight is the final round of humans versus machine autos the super computer watson spent twodays facing off against returning jeopardy champs brad rutter and ken jenning autos so far, watson is in the lead. ibm programmed watson to recognize human language. >> searching data base and comes up with likely answers to a question, then ranks answers by percentages, all in an instant. >> we can use them in school. >> creators looking ahead to the next assignment. >> we're looking at helping physicians make better decisions. something we call different yil diagnosis applying that to help physicians in that case. >> you can catch the final appearance tonight at 7:00. >> that will be fascinating to see what happens afterwards. >> that is going to do it for us. i'm cheryl jenning autos from all of us here, thanks for watching. >>> toniworl >>> tonight on "world news" -- a call to action. a stunning wake-up call about the health of you, your family and the mounting doctor bills. >>> danger next door. an ambush in mexico raising new fear about safety as american tourists head south of t

but watson gave the response, toronto. it was a pretty bad night for the humans. only 5 out of 30 questions answered correctly. >> i have a feeling watson has a pretty quick trigger finger also. >>> coming up on this wednesday, bernard madoff's first interview. >>> plus, some swear it's a cold killer. dr. richard besser weighs in on the use of zinc. >>> and the klepto cat, who has a habit of stealing from the neighbors. craves fuel. make sure you give it something that counts. i love quaker oatmeal, it's seriously a superfood. it's fuel that your body needs to get going. this stuff is a game changer. and now it's better than ever. it's got a heartier texture, and in some of your favorites, all natural flavors and 25% less sugar. i can't think of a better way to kick off your day. so i just have one question for you. are you eating quaker for breakfast? it was a mystery to me. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chro

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s watson the supercomputer that took on jeopardy's biggest winners and well absolutely schooled that so some say is a preview of what's to come computers becoming key players in games so we wanted to know which game do you think should be the next stage for battle between man and machine and here's what some of you had to answer on facebook on o'brien a good shoes is american a gladiator's scott jackson thinks it should be a family feud but tommy drug now hatfield says cells like they could use watson at the defense department now on twitter we heard from deserve the knowledge he says watson doesn't really understand the questions so pattern matching capabilities might be enough to play a game of go fish on you tube nine eighty seven chimes in with since watson is given to repetitive motion as in buzzing in a nice rhythm a challenge could be a reality speed game show hybrid who wants to milk a million cows now quaking i think you get the award for most interesting response in this segment so now we're on to our next question we've spoken extensively about the union strikes underway i

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and watson crushed them. i watched it today. he crushed them.th wedgies and he took their girlfriends away. which that's a big deal. but i don't know why. my calculator for instance has been able to spell the word "boobs" upside down for years. watson did very well. but there were a few times when it was way off the mark. it thought toronto was in the united states. which it isn't. it's in canada. one other time, watson was even wronger than that -- >> it was the anatomical oddy of u.s. gymnast george eyser, who won a gold medal on the parallel bars in 1904. ken? >> what is he only had one hand? >> no. watson. >> what are walrus testicles? >> no. >> jimmy: the correct answer was dolphin testicles. so, you watch jeopardy tomorrow night, it's in syndication. tomorrow, alex trebek's former mustache goes up against a zhu zhu pet. if you have been watching our show at any point over the past couple of weeks, i have been donating a lot of energy to a cause i believe in very strongly. i don't mean to get serious here, but i'm involved in a battle again

well, ibm designed watson specifically to play jeopardy.intelligence will be a boone to the medical and high tech fields. >> that's pretty cool. >> can i tell you something you don't see. >> yeah. i'd love to know. >> when you're playing jeopardy, i was like banking on getting 10 to 15 questions right. when that happened i panicked and i was hitting the buzzer. you can't buzz in until the question is done reading and this light goes on that you don't see. so i panicked. and i locked myself out. >> the computer is locked in. >> there's lots going on when you're actually playing the game. >> what is hippo? >> i thought it was reverse, reverse psychology on me. apparently not. >> katie linendoll. better luck next time. >> coming up next, toys take manhattan. five of the hottest toys from tomorrow's american international toy fair right here on "the early show" on cbs. [ road noise ] [ whispering female announcer ] there are other companies that have mini vans with similar safety features as the chrysler town and country. ♪ the difference betwe

why watson's creators say humans have nothing to fear. that and much more coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, began yesterday in libya for the >>> it is 4:49. this morning, anti-government protests are spreading in the mideast. demonstrations gang yesterday in libya for the first time. people there want to end the 42- year rule of moammar qaddafi. and things getting ugly in the tiny persian gulf nation of bahrain. medical official there say four people have been killed in antigovernment protests. today riot police broke up demonstrators in the capital with tear gas and clubs. the government has put the city on lockdown, warning citizens to stay off the streets. >>> the junior senator from massachusetts is revealing a secret he has kept for nearly 40 years. republican scott brown talked about being abused by a camp counselor when he was just 10 years old. he makes those revelations in new book, against all odds. and he talked about it with leslie stahl for sunday night's "60 minutes" broadcast. >> you were actually sexually abused more than once?

watson, 125 billion.ly impressed up to a point. >> i said when you guys develop a computer that can come up with original thought, that can make me laugh and that can have emotions, then i'll start worrying. but that's a long way down the line, folks. that will take a while. >> reporter: t.j. winick, abc news. >> sad day for humanity. we could test our viewers. >> we have a little question for you. >> there we go. most popular dual-anchor overnight news program. >> we couldn't get another qualifier. saddest question ever. >> write your answer, vinita. come on now. >> we like to think it's us. oh, i really have to write -- >> write an answer. you know how the game is played. >> only one that there is, "world news now." >> "world news now." today and forever. look at that. i bet $10,000. >> what is "world news now"? >>> this morning on "world news now" -- deadly demonstrations. the unpredictable unrest in an arab nation. >> our abc news correspondent injured when he got in the middle of it all. >>> it is th

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. >> this is watson. >> reporter: an ibm super computer named watson.so much info, it would take a human 250,000 years to read.work of cs filled with so much info, it would take a human 250,000 years to read. but can he quickly answer jeopardy's classic backwards questions? right off the bat, the answer was yes. >> watson. you are right. >> reporter: watson sprinted to an early lead. mastering everything from literature to beatles trivia. >> who is jude. >> yes. >> reporter: he was beating the famous champs by an arm and a leg. >> what is leg. >> reporter: but things took a turn for the worse. in the second half of the round, the computer froze. >> watson. >> what is 1920s. >> no. ken said that. >> reporter: watson gave up his lead. and by the end of round one, man and machine were in a dead tie. betty nguyen, cbs news, new york. >> part of the problem is that watson doesn't know how to guess. you're getting a good chuck kell out-one. >> i can't even figure out my phone, so this thing is really -- this is really -- >> that's rue. you were having a littl

watson in the finals against martin keimer neck and neck when watson put one out with the scorpions andattle snake. keimer had the edge in the match and wrapped it up one up with a par at 18. keimer against donald tomorrow. any way essay insured of being the new number one ranked player in the world. >>> nascar is racing tomorrow in phoenix. carl edwards on the pole after setting a track record in qualifing. daytona 500 winner trevor bane will only earn points this year in the nationwide series. he was running in the top ten all day today until he blew a tire with 25 laps to go. here is how that turned out. he ended up 31st as he limped to the pits. his race was over. a much better known driver kyle busch made a little race history. kyle busch became the first guy in eight years to go wire-to- wire in a nascar race. he started on the pole and also won the trucks race last night. he will try to make it 3-3 for taking the sprint cup race tomorrow. >>> it has been a whirlwind week for bane who won the daytona sunday one day after his 20th birthday. part of his coast-to-coast victory lap wa

but as the second round wore on, watson's hardware can scan 200 mill pages of information at blazing speeds. by the final round, flesh and blood proved no match. >> we're looking for -- and we find -- the computer scientist helped develop watson over the last four years and was not surprised the machine won. >> i think it's a great result. i'm very gratified with the result. i think it was earned. >> jennings jokingly wrote, i for one well come our computer. machines are not going to take over the world anytime soon. >> is this technology something that people should fear or be -- >> no is no loan to fear. do you fear your pc now because it has a word process or in it or it has a spread she'd. these are utilities that are useful to you. they are not threatening. ibm hopes to use the technology to help doctors diagnose patients. ibm is not getting into the game show business. >>> ever wish you could just take off and leave all your problems behind? maybe get away from a creepy ex? a man now helps people disappear. >> he is an expert at tracking people down. he found monica. when the t

s watson supercomputer for a challenge against "jeopardy" champions. "nova" airs on most pbs stations. the "newshour's" science correspondent miles o'brien faced off in his own trial match against watson. he reveals the outcome in an exclusive online interview. >> miles, how did you do? >> well, let's just say hari, it wasn't elementary, my dear watson. it was really ugly. watson absolutely creamed me and scraped me off the floor. >> holman: you can watch that interview online and tune in for miles o'brien's story on man versus the machine on monday. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll have the next of margaret warner's reports from egypt. i'm gwen ifill. >> lehrer: and i'm jim lehrer. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i mean, where would we be without small businesses? >> we need small businesses. >> they're the ones that help drive growth. >> like electr