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Campbells soup company managers announced a $10 million plan to help hungry and obese children today. the plan goes into action in cities where campbells makes soup. and the final game between two "jeopardy!" champs and an ibm computer airs today. that computer, named watson, trounced the competition yesterday. >> go, humans. finally this half hour, there is a cat burglar on the loose in california and its been accused in about 600 break-ins. >> victims and authorities arent too worried abou...

Campbells soup company managers announced a $10 million plan to help hungry and obese children today. the plan goes into action in cities where campbells makes soup. and the final game between two "jeopardy!" champs and an ibm computer airs today. that computer, named watson, trounced the competition yesterday. >> go, humans. finally this half hour, there is a cat burglar on the loose in california and its been accused in about 600 break-ins. >> victims and authorities arent too worried abou...

Jeopardy. we all like to think were smart. tell me your impressions of watson. is this something -- fine, maybe watson can be competitive in jeopardy. where else can this go? >> well, ibm likes to emphasize the health care aspects of of it. for instance, if you have symptoms you can call up a watson-type machine, tell them the symptoms and they can get possible diagnoses to a doctor. what im waiting for, though, is for customer service, like say i call up my cable company and ask them why my cab...

In jeopardy. its also in the "big i." jeopardy is pitching guy versus gadget. a supercomputer named watson finished round one last night tied with one of his had human competitors and ahead of the other. look at this. >> jeopardy, the ibm challenge. >> a split personality. >> who is michael phelps. event horizon. >> yes. >> yes. >> what are the 20s? >> yes. watson. >> what are the 1920s? >> no. ken said that. >> brad? what are the 1910s. >> that puts you into a tie for the lead with brad. >> and...

Are asked that dont work with algorithms. >> right. the one thing they havent come up with watson is the common sense gene. when one of the practice games there was a question about jamie foxx learning to play the cell low for his role in the sol loist. he rang in and said beethoven. i can see why beethoven is associated with cellists and the common sense says beethoven is dead. he doesnt care about embarrassing himself. >> tonight is the final game of this matchup. where did you think youd be t...

Its a completely separate program. watson is fed the answers from a different room 20 feet away from the set. it was weird because ken and i are great rivals but were friendly, too. it was almost like we were on the same team, team humans versus team machine. we were in between the commercial breaks always chatting about, wow, i cant believe watson got that. i expect he would have missed something like that. it was a strange experience. >> finals tonight. well all be watching. brad, good to talk...

Brad, good to see you. thank you for being with us. how does it feel to be tied with a computer? >> it feels pretty good, especially seeing how fast watson got off at the start. ken and i were way behind, then we made a comeback then watson tied me at the end. >> im sure youve read about this, ive read about it. what makes this ibm computer competitive with a brain like yours? >> they figured out alga rhythms in a way with the way the human brain does. its fascinating. watson picks up certain wo...

Parliament, for example, their privileges, and their money. their salaries, their goodie, all those companies in the economy that they own that brings benefits to the high ranking members of the military. thats whats around the corner and its going to be quite a challenge. jon: eliot abrams, thank you for your expertise. jenna: some say if at first you dont succeed, try try again and it appears thats what house republicans are ready to do, theyre going to vote again after a surprising defeat on ...