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Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
February 2011
On Sale: February 17, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0547483163
EAN: 9780547483160
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What if there were a computer that could answer virtually
any question? IBM engineers are developing such a machine,
teaching it to compete on the quiz show Jeopardy. In
February 2011, it will face off in a nationally televised
game against two of the game’s greatest all-time winners,
Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Final Jeopardy tells the
riveting story behind the match. Final Jeopardy carries readers on a captivating journey from
the IBM lab to the podium. The story features brilliant
Ph.D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy
masters — and a very special collection of silicon and
circuitry named Watson. It is a classic match of Man vs.
Machine, not seen since Deep Blue bested chess grandmaster
Garry Kasparov. But Watson will need to do more than churn
through chess moves or find a relevant web page. It will
have to understand language, including puns and irony, and
master everything from history and literature to science,
arts, and entertainment. At its heart, Final Jeopardy is about the future of
knowledge. What can we teach machines? What will Watson’s
heirs be capable of in ten or twenty years? And where does
that leave humans? As fast and fun as the game itself, Final
Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world —
and how they’ll disrupt it.
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