Tweet   Just watched the premiere of The Smartest Machine on Earth (Watson) on PBS’s NOVA tonight and thought I'd share. At first I thought it was just a super fast search engine but as you'll see, it uses machine learning to get smarter and smarter and answer extremely difficult Jeopardy questions that include puns, ambiguities, jokes etc...   For example, how can a computer know the meaning of thi More..s statement: I shot an elephant wearing my pajamas. or know the answer to this: Can a can can-can? Watson will be competing on Jeopardy Feb 14-16, 2011. Program Description Can a computer beat the best human minds on Jeopardy!? Live during our broadcast on February 9 at 10pm, follow bloggers below from the IBM Watson team, including David Ferrucci, head of the team; David Gondek, strategy team leader; and Eric Brown, DeepQA architecture specialist. Please note we will not be accepting comments from the general public.