To no ones great surprise, IBM's Watson question answering (QA) system triumphed over a couple of guys you normally wouldn't want to get into a Trivial Pursuit contest with on the Jeopardy! TV game show last week.

Watson went up against Jeopardy's two greatest human players, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, and destroyed them. The fact that Watson won wasn't surprising. After all, IBM's Big Blue computer beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in chess.

But Watson did it in such a way that was almost chilling. He made Jennings, who once won 74 Jeopardy! games in a row, adopt the facial expressions that his opponents once wore; a look of complete and total frustration.

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