The Smartest Machine on Earth: Can a Computer Win on JEOPARDY!?

Scientists are edging closer to augmented human intelligence with machines like “Watson,” an IBM computing system that is gearing up for a first-of-its-kind challenge: competing on the game show JEOPARDY, taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter—two of the show’s most successful and celebrated contestants of all time.

Will Watson be able to compute its way to victory?