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.)

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.

Preparing Watson for the Jeopardy stage posed a unique challenge to the team: how to represent a system of 90 servers and hundreds of custom algorithms for the viewing public. IBM, in collaboration with a team of partners, created a representation of this computing system for the viewing audience; from its stage presence to its voice. Who knew the spinning sphere had so much meaning?! Check out another one of my favorite Watson videos Building Watson. Tomorrow, Febuary 14, 2011, America will witness Watson compete on Jeopardy on TV against two of the show's biggest winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

David Ferrucci of IBM discusses the DeepQA Project; the technology and architecture behind IBM's newest technological innovation, the question answering and natural language processing system, Watson.