Ive been thinking about watson a lot lately and I honestly dont get why its such a big deal. I think beating a human in chess is a far greater accomplishment. Can someone fill me in on why jeopardy is so big? I mean its essentially a glorified search engine to me it seems. Chess is something that is always changing based on how the human reacts so the computer must replan and such. Jeopardy remains static no matter how the human interacts.
I get that there is a lot of word play and such in jeopardy so coding around that seems like a task but I just dont see it as the amazing feat everyone is making it out to be. I dont know, maybe im not considering all the other amazing possibilities the computer has….