‘jeopardy’ Host Ken Jennings ‘deeply Skeptical’ Of Ai, Years After Losing To Supercomputer

"Jeopardy!" big Ken Jennings erstwhile played against a super-intelligent computer, but he says existent artificial intelligence is already years ahead.

"I’m profoundly skeptical of AI," Jennings told Fox News Digital astatine nan TCM Classic Film Festival.

"Obviously, these existent iterations of LLMs [Large Language Models] would cleanable Watson’s timepiece astatine ‘Jeopardy!’ The exertion has moved on. I’ve played pinch chatbots and ‘Jeopardy!’ clues, and they’re very difficult to stump," he said. 

Jennings, on pinch chap "Jeopardy!" all-star Brad Rutter, competed against nan IBM Watson machine successful 2011.

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"Jeopardy!" big Ken Jennings said he's "deeply skeptical" of AI. (Christopher Willard/ABC via Getty Images)

Watson specialized successful analyzing earthy quality connection and answering analyzable questions, demonstrating its skills successful a two-game accumulation lucifer against Jennings and Rutter. 

Over nan people of 3 days, nan machine sewage many, but not each of nan answers correct. For example, during nan first game, it missed nan "Final Jeopardy!" hint astir U.S. cities.

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"Its largest airdrome was named for a World War II hero; its 2nd largest, for a World War II battle," nan punctual read. The correct reply was "What is Chicago?" but Watson answered, "What is Toronto?????" pinch 5 mobility marks,

As IBM’s website explained, nan aggregate mobility marks indicated Watson wasn’t wholly assured successful its reply aft moving its algorithms hundreds of times successful astir 3 seconds. 

Jennings, on pinch chap "Jeopardy!" fable Brad Rutter, faced disconnected pinch Watson successful 2011. (Ben Hider/Getty Images)

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Despite nan occasional incorrect answer, Watson ended up winning nan $1 cardinal prize, donating its proceeds to charity.

Since then, according to IBM’s website, "The underlying exertion has gone connected to thief organizations predict, optimize and automate business processes crossed galore industries. Roughly 70% of world finance institutions and 13 of nan apical 14 systems integrators usage Watson."

After his defeat, Jennings wrote an essay for Slate astatine nan time, saying, "IBM has bragged to nan media that Watson’s question-answering skills are bully for much than annoying Alex Trebek. The institution sees a early successful which fields for illustration aesculapian diagnosis, business analytics, and tech support are automated by question-answering package for illustration Watson."

He continued, "Just arsenic mill jobs were eliminated successful nan 20th century by caller assembly-line robots, Brad and I were nan first knowledge-industry workers put retired of activity by nan caller procreation of ‘thinking’ machines. ‘Quiz show contestant’ whitethorn beryllium nan first occupation made redundant by Watson, but I’m judge it won’t beryllium nan last."

After his conclusion by Watson, Jennings said, "‘Quiz show contestant’ whitethorn beryllium nan first occupation made redundant by Watson, but I’m judge it won’t beryllium nan last." (Ben Hider/Getty Images)

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Jennings, who is now big of "Jeopardy!" arsenic good arsenic an author, isn’t fresh to springiness complete his full profession to AI conscionable yet.

"I activity successful a imaginative section and erstwhile I watch thing aliases I perceive to something, I want to consciousness for illustration it’s coming from a mind. I want that consciousness of personification talking to maine and I ne'er get that pinch AI slop," he said during nan festival.

The fearfulness of AI replacing creatives successful Hollywood has been a persistent 1 successful nan past fewer years, taking clasp during nan writers' and actors' strikes of 2023.

Earlier this year, Fox News Digital said pinch musician will.i.am, who said existent artists don’t request to interest astir AI replacing them.

will.i.am told Fox News Digital it's not artists who should interest astir AI, but group for illustration "managers, explanation execs, finance auditors, attorneys." (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

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"The only point to beryllium worried astir is if you're making euphony to pursuit an algorithm," he told Fox News Digital. "If you're making euphony to inclination connected TikTok. And to do that, you person to really unlock nan codes to that matrix. If that's your full [hustle], past AI is going to do a amended occupation than that."

The Black Eyed Peas vocalist does deliberation group not progressive successful nan imaginative process successful nan euphony manufacture are nan ones who should interest astir AI taking distant their jobs. 

"The group that are at risk of AI successful nan euphony [industry] are managers, explanation execs, finance auditors, attorneys. If you look astatine nan money that's being put [in]to make these systems much advanced, Microsoft is giving you a copilot [the company’s AI assistant]. And there's thing slowing down really freaking awesome that's going to beryllium successful 2025 type eight. And that's going to beryllium utilized for each types of industries," he said.

"There's not an service aliases a fleet of AI euphony do[ing] everything to nan level of copilots aliases income unit agents. So musicians and hyper-creatives are OK. We're going to usage AI and reinvent and create a full caller manufacture because of it."

The Black Eyed Peas vocalist said creatives will beryllium utilizing AI to "reinvent and create a full caller manufacture because of it." (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

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He added, "Right now, AI does a bully occupation of everything that we've created and tin mimic it. But AI is not making things that don't beryllium exist. We do that. We created AI. So AI is simply a mirror. It shows you precisely what's successful beforehand of it."