Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy và tôi, kẻ-biết-tuốt lỗi thời
Ken Jennings holds the record for most consecutive wins on the classic American trivia game show, Jeopardy. Full bio
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hào hứng với chúng.
(những game show khác).
ngay cả trước khi nó đã giúp tôi... trả tiền nhà.
một kênh truyền hình tiếng Anh.
chuyên nghiệp.
Nó vẫn quan trọng.
một bé gái tên Tilly Smith,
"Ý con là sao? Chúng ta vừa mới tới đây thôi mà".
người-biết-tuốt cuối cùng
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ken Jennings - Know-it-allKen Jennings holds the record for most consecutive wins on the classic American trivia game show, Jeopardy.
Why you should listen
Ken Jennings loves facts. When he was a kid he followed his parents around reciting whatever new fact he had learned -- "Haley's comet or giant squids or the size of the world's biggest pumpkin pie or whatever it was" -- to no end. And his natural curiosity paid off. Today Jennings holds the record for most consecutive wins on the trivia game show Jeopardy, with an astounding 74 wins. (At one point Jennings also held the Guinness World Record for "Most cash won on a game show." Not bad for a trivia nerd.)
In 2011 Jennings participated in the IBM Challenge, which featured him and Jeopardy rival Brad Rutter in a match against IBM supercomputer Watson. Jennings came in second. Watson was first. But Jennings wasn't disappointed in his performance, As he wrote of his loss, "I don't have 2,880 processor cores and 15 terabytes of reference works at my disposal. ... My puny human brain, just a few bucks worth of water, salts, and proteins, hung in there just fine against a jillion-dollar supercomputer."
In 2012 Jennings published the book Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids.
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