So you're saying that a human aided by a computer, internet connection, and access to additional data can answer intentionally formed trivia questions as well as an unmanned computer (although I suspect a fair bit slower)?

This is the biggest innovation in computers in my lifetime and kids are like, "but its no Twitter".

Watson doesn't have internet access. It has just learned from thousands of sources and thousands of Jeopardy! questions. Just like human Jeopardy! contestants.

I'm saying that Watson's advantage in trivia-answering comes mainly from aptitudes which are already well-known to favor the computer.

Watson's human-level performance at Jeopardy comes from the combination of highly superhuman data retrieval with highly subhuman language processing.

Watson is more a spectacle than an innovation.

And here we see the AI paradox..

As soon as AI succeeds at something, it is simple.

"Reverse primary thrust, Marvin." That's what they say to me. "Open airlock number 3, Marvin." "Marvin, can you pick up that piece of paper?" Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper.

Marvin the Paranoid Android, in HHGG