Interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” about the performance of IBM’s Watson computer on Jeopardy! (Feb. 17, 2011).
On Language columnist for the New York Times Magazine Ben Zimmer and Stephen Baker, author of Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything talk about how the IBM’s super computer won last night on Jeopardy! and what it means when artificial beats human intelligence.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Atlantic Monthly piece, Word Routes column)