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WATSON: Hello, my name is WATSON. NARRATOR: For the first time in history, a computer will. ANNOUNCER. (Jeopardy!): This is Jeopardy! NARRATOR: For the scientists who created WATSON, the. DAVID. FERRUCCI (IBM Research): It's going to be edge- of- your- seat. It's going to be. NARRATOR: A four- year odyssey comes down to this.

DAVE. FERRUCCI: What really is going to happen? And you just don't.

You don't know. NARRATOR: There are more than reputations at stake. Some. say a WATSON victory could signal a new age, a revolution in artificial.

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LUIS. VON AHN (Carnegie Mellon University). It used to be the case that intelligence.

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If you can play chess, that's intelligence. NARRATOR: But taking on spoken language and ferocious word- play. It requires more than just memory. TODD CRAIN(Training Game Host): WATSON?

LUIS. VON AHN: Just understanding the question is a big deal. NARRATOR: How will WATSON do it? NOVA. gets unique access to the making of WATSON, shadowing the IBM team working.

WATSON.. TODD. CRAIN: Comedies directed by Blake Edwards. WATSON? WATSON: What is The Pink Panther?

DAVE. FERRUCCI: We couldn't write rules for every combination of. NARRATOR: .. refining powerful new tools of computing.. DAVE. FERRUCCI: We took a huge jump with machine learning. We were. like, "Woooh! Yes, he got it!"NARRATOR: .. WATSON: What is mosquito?

TODD. CRAIN (Training Game Host): No! WATSON: Holiday? TODD. CRAIN: No. WATSON: What is artificial sweetener? TODD. CRAIN: Come on, now. No. DAVE. FERRUCCI: We don't understand the question.

We don't. understand the category. DAVE. GONDEK (IBM Research): Yeah, that was one of the tensest days I've ever. FERRUCCI: You fall flat on your face. Did I expect to get. No, but.. maybe. We came back and the game was neck and neck. TODD. CRAIN: Wordsworth said they "soar, but never roam." WATSON? WATSON: What is skylark?

TODD. CRAIN: That is correct. NARRATOR: Is WATSON ready to face the game's all time. JENNINGS (Jeopardy! Champion): This is too daunting a task for a computer. HARRY. FRIEDMAN (Jeopardy!): I think we've gone from impressed to blown away. NARRATOR: When man takes on machine who will win?

WATSON: What is Crete? TODD. CRAIN: Yes! NARRATOR: NOVA takes you inside the world of artificial. ALEX. TREBEK (Jeopardy!): Good luck, WATSON. WATSON: Smartest Machine on Earth, right now.

NOVA! NARRATOR: Dave Ferrucci is a nervous parent. He's. spent the last four years building a revolutionary new computer, and it's about. WATSON: Hello, my name is WATSON. I hope we have a good game. I have to test my voice. NARRATOR: When the cameras roll, the computer, called. WATSON, will make history, as it competes on the popular quiz show Jeopardy!

ANNOUNCER. (Jeopardy!): This is Jeopardy! This. is Jeopardy!

DAVE. FERRUCCI: It's frightening, right? It's a different. It's a very different experience for a scientist to sit here and. NARRATOR: Ferrucci has reason to fear. WATSON is playing. Brad. Rutter, Jeopardy's biggest money winner, and Ken Jennings, famous.

KEN. JENNINGS: There's some contestant's pride—I want to beat. I would like mankind to. WATSON: Let's finish "Leaders of World War II."TODD. CRAIN: All. right! NARRATOR: This big bad computer is the culmination of four. IBM has put WATSON through hundreds of practice games.

TODD. CRAIN: After Germany invaded the Netherlands, this queen. London. Maria? MARIA. IBM Jeopardy! Practice. Contestant) Who is Beatrix? TODD. CRAIN: No.

WATSON? WATSON: Who is Wilhelmina? TODD. CRAIN: That is correct. ERIC. BROWN (IBM Research): It's a human standing there, with their carbon and.

NARRATOR: It seems like it should be easy for the computer. Jeopardy. DAVE. GONDEK: Jeopardy questions are tricky. They. have puns in them. They have little jokes in them. LUIS. VON AHN: Just understanding the question is a pretty big.

CRAIN: This trusted friend was the first non- dairy powdered. WATSON? WATSON: What is milk? TODD. CRAIN: No. Maria? MARIA. What is Coffee- mate®? TODD. CRAIN: Thank you!

DAVE. FERRUCCI: Humans communicate very fluently in, you know. NARRATOR: Now, WATSON is on the verge of conquering that. CRAIN: A garment worn by a child, perhaps aboard an. WATSON? WATSON: What is pinafore? TODD. CRAIN: Yes! How did you get that? NARRATOR: If WATSON wins on Jeopardy, it will.

A. I. ELEKTRO. (Westinghouse Electric Corporation /Video. I am Elektro the Robot. My brain is bigger than yours. TERRY. WINOGRAD (Stanford University): When we started doing A. I., the goal was, "Why can't. We all know how to make people; that's easy. What if we. could build one out of silicon? Watch Disappearances Online.

NARRATOR: Pioneers drew their inspiration from the world of. MARVIN. MINSKY (Massachusetts Institute of.

Technology): As a child, Isaac. Asimov turns up. So, here, I'm an adolescent, and, and the robots, intelligent. ROBBY. THE ROBOT (Forbidden Planet/Video Clip): At. MARVIN. MINSKY. Let's, let's see about getting them built.

NARRATOR: In the early days, computers grew rapidly more. Watch The Dark Half Full Movie. MARVIN. MINSKY. The first programs we wrote at M.

I. T. solved problems that only very educated people could solve, like problems in. NARRATOR: The computer pioneers thought they were on a fast. CLAUDE. SHANNON (Massachusetts Institute of. Technology/Film Clip): I.

PAT. WINSTON (Massachusetts Institute of. Technology): In the beginning. Well, maybe 1. 0 or 1. WINOGRAD: In the beginning, people really. When you see something that's. NARRATOR: In the '6.

KEIR DULLEA as DAVE (2. A Space Odyssey/Film Clip): Hello, Hal, do you read me? Do. you read me, Hal? DOUGLAS. RAIN as HAL (2. A Space Odyssey/Film. Clip): Affirmative, Dave. I read you. RODNEY.

BROOKS (Massachusetts Institute of. Technology): When I was a kid, I. A Space Odyssey, and Hal was just the best thing ever!

DAVE. (2. 00. 1: A Space Odyssey/Film. Clip): Open the pod bay doors, please. A Space Odyssey/Film. Clip): I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I. can't do that. RODNEY. BROOKS: You know, it was a murdering. DAVE. (2. 00. 1: A Space Odyssey/Film.

BROOKS: But, it was intelligent, could. I'd never even seen a real computer, at that.

NARRATOR: More than 4. HAL, no. real computer or robot has been able to interact with humans as seamlessly as. Hollywood imagines. WILLIAM. HURT(Lost in Space/Film Clip): Tell me, what is love? NARRATOR: The problem is our own human computer, the brain.

LUIS. VON AHN: We just had no idea how sophisticated the brain was. NARRATOR: The computer has always been.. TEACHER. Pen, as in the pen. What's the. middle letter? SCHOOL. CHILDREN: E! TEACHER: Excellent. NARRATOR: But simple skills that humans master early in.

TOM. MITCHELL: You know, people vastly misjudged how subtle we are. People just hugely underestimated that. NARRATOR: But the dream of building a computer that could. ANNOUNCER. (Jeopardy!): This is Jeopardy! ALEX. TREBEK: In Wagner's operas, this eldest Valkyrie is. KEN. JENNINGS: Who. Brí¼nnhilde? NARRATOR: In 2.

Ken Jennings' 7. 4- game winning streak on Jeopardy. IBM executive while out to dinner. CHARLES. LICKEL (IBM Research): All of a sudden, the entire restaurant cleared out. I am sitting at, to go see Ken Jennings play Jeopardy.

ALEX. TREBEK: This Grand Ole Opry comedy star used to wear a straw. KEN. JENNINGS: Who. Minnie Pearl? NARRATOR: Charles Lickel wondered if a computer could ever. Ken Jennings. So he pitched the idea to some of IBM's top.

CHARLES. LICKEL: For the ones that knew Jeopardy. Charles, that's just too hard." Um, I think the, the prevailing. DAVE. GONDEK: Yeah, I was like, "No way!" I was like, "No way!"NARRATOR: But one researcher, Dave Ferrucci, was intrigued.

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