Column: Watson may be bad, but I could take him

I am neither Ken Jennings nor Brad Rutter.
Both men are impressive Jeopardy! champions. Both went down in flaming defeat to Watson, the IBM supercomputer.
But Watson did not impress me as much as it did the techno-wonks who probably thought Jennings was serious when he wrote on his final Jeopardy! screen, “I for one welcome our new computer overlords.”
Without doubt, Watson is fast. Without doubt, Watson has tons of details at his … well, I guess

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