A - "It will provide publicity you could never buy."

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Q - "What is the impetus behind putting an experimental system of natural 
language response on a TV game show, Alex?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8021774.stm

"In a head-to-head challenge of man versus machine, IBM will pit a 
supercomputer named Watson against human contestants [on the `Jeopardy' quiz 
show].  

"Watson is a new question-answering system based on natural language. "

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