The obsolete know-it-all: Ken Jennings

Former Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings made his name by knowing lots of stuff. Then came Watson, an IBM supercomputer that defeated Jennings without a childhood of pop culture references and world atlases. At TEDxSeattleU, Jennings wonders whether human knowledge is becoming obsolete, and calls for a future where humans and machines can learn and grow together. (Filmed at TEDxSeattleU)

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    Ken Jennings is my high school’s claim to fame. But he rarely ever talks about how he went there hahaha
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