Mitchell McKenna - tagged with jeopardy http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Ken Jennings's TED Talk: The Obsolete Know-It-All http://mitchmckenna.com/post/12716/ken-jennings-watson-jeopardy-and-me-the-obsolete-know-it-all

First TED Talk i've enjoyed in a while, who would have thought Ken Jennings had such a great sense of humor, he makes some interesting points about our growing reliance on technology as well.

Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the U.S. game show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against supercomputer Watson -- and lost. With humor and humility, Jennings tells us how it felt to have a computer literally beat him at his own game, and also makes the case for good old-fashioned human knowledge. (Filmed at TEDxSeattleU.)

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How IBM Watson Could Change Healthcare http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9126/perspectives-on-watson-healthcare

Now this is where I see Watson being used in the future. We all take advice from our doctors, but wouldn't it be nice to get a statistical opinion on what the solution to your ailment might be? Doctor's could use Watson to get alternative opinions, options the doctor might not thought of on his own. Watson could have years of your medical records to base answers on, something a doctor might easily overlook.

Check out a couple of my other favorite videos on Watson: The Face of Watson and Building Watson: The DeepQA Project.

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