Last night the Jeopardy game show featured IBM's "Watson" super computer as a contestant. It was matched against two all-time winners on the show. It tied one of the contestants. So the first night of three was a draw between man versus the machine. To make a long story short, it had answers but it didn't understand some of the questions. I.E. some of the answers were non sequitors and didn't address the question . The machine couldn't be trusted .
Watson resembles politicians. We elect politicians to do things for us that we can't do for ourselves. But the pols turn out to be watsons who don't or refuse to fix the problems and just give out no- follow- through campaign pledges. The politians can't be trusted.
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