Interview on “The Conversation” (KUOW Seattle) about how IBM’s Watson computer performed on Jeopardy! (Feb. 17, 2011)
Language, Humans, And Our Robot Overlords: Watson the computer crushed the human competition on “Jeopardy!” this week. How well did Watson’s language processor handle all the bad puns and double entendres in the Jeopardy clues? New York Times language columnist Ben Zimmer rates Watson’s performance.
(Show page, RealAudio, MP3, download, related Atlantic Monthly piece, Word Routes column. Segment begins about 11 minutes into the show.)