Why Should Jeopardy-Let The Games Begin

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Let The Games Begin

Perhaps the most famous form of artificial intelligence to come into people's homes is, Watson. If you are familiar with the popular quiz show Jeopardy, you will remember Watson. Named after IBM's first CEO and industrialist, Thomas J. Watson, the computer contestant went up against Jeopardy's two all time- highest earning players, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. The challenge was to see if a machine could out-think humans in an actual question and answer contest. Watson walked, or more accurately rolled away with the grand prize earning of $1 million dollars.

We've witnessed AI on TV in science fiction movies and our favorite weekly shows, yet when it enters our home we are still duly impressed. It's the everyday duties …show more content…

Who in this day and age hasn't been whooped by a video game? Games are the perfect playing field for a computer. Keep in mind though that humans always want to feel superior, so the games are programmed not to win if certain moves are made by the human. If these weren't programmed into the application, games would likely beat the daylights out of every turn we make along the way. What fun is …show more content…

This challenges us and also takes power away from us at the same time. For example, a simple thing like when we play computer games. Over time our own human algorithms are altered to accommodate the moves necessary when playing a video game. Scientists watch, studied and use the information gathered. This adds to the efficiency and essentially effectuates the software within the game to “understand” the players' ability. This information is employed to get better and better artificial intelligence programmed into the game. It is used to study human behavior for purposes of marketing and manipulation. The name of the real game is; sell more video games. Harmless? I don't know. Time is the answer to that question. If this sound too futuristic imagine what a simple game boy would have sounded like to someone in 1955?

Studies have shown that video games do change our brain. Just like any learned activity, reading, doing math, learning a sport, playing music, and so on, affects the physical structure of the brain. Similar to other parts of the body, we build matter when we exercise an area. A powerful combination of concentration and rewarding surges of neurotransmitters create and strengthen neural circuits that build brain matter. Could competing against computers make us even