This week's question addresses a robot and one of America's most well-known game shows. A supercomputer named Watson, designed by IBM and consisting of 90 IBM Power 750 Express servers, is set to face two human contestants on the US quiz show Jeopardy this week. IBM says Watson signals a new era in computing where machines will increasingly be able to learn and understand humans' more subtle requests. Jeopardy is seen as the greatest challenge for Watson because of the show's fast format and the clues' frequent emphasis on puns, riddles, and creativity in the language: something humans have traditionally excelled at understanding and computers have not. What do you think? If artificial intelligence outsmarts two live contestants, is that a bad sign for the humans? RESULTS
YES
18.69%
NO
81.31%