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February 16, 2011

Watson, AI, Jeopardy, Toronto

Watson’s Final Jeopardy answer has created a need for a new word:

Schadenrobot: The joy humans feel watching robots fail.

[Minutes later:] I tweeted this, and Alistair Steele [twitter: alistairsteele immediately riposted with the far cleverer term: Schadendroid. Well played, suh!

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Categories: culture, humor Tagged with: ai • humor • jeopardy • schadenfreude • watson Date: February 16th, 2011 dw

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