February 16, 2011
Watson, AI, Jeopardy, Toronto
Watson’s Final Jeopardy answer has created a need for a new word:
Schadenrobot: The joy humans feel watching robots fail.
[Minutes later:] I tweeted this, and Alistair Steele [twitter: alistairsteele immediately riposted with the far cleverer term: Schadendroid. Well played, suh!