Watson, a supercomputer designed by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) and currently competing in Jeopardy has won day 2 against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In the first game, Watson tied with Rutter and beat Jennings. The final score on today’s Jeopardy was: Watson: $35,734, Rutter: $10,400, Jennings: $4,800. Below are videos of the first game:

A supercomputer called Watson, developed by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), will be competing with two of the most successful players on Jeopardy during three episodes between February 14-16, 2011. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will be taking on the computer in those three episodes.

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek auto-tuned himself when asking questions about music.

IBM has created computers that can beat other humans in chess, but now they are planning on building a computer that can beat you at Jeopardy.  The system is called the Watson and it will use artificial intelligence to index information related to questions asked on Jeopardy. The computer must be able to buzz when it knows the answer fast enough and even take into account the analogies and puns used on the show.

[via NYT]