The greatest Jeopardy player of all time and the current host of the popular game show will be coming to Nebraska this spring. Ken Jennings will headline the 2023 Nebraska Science Festival, which runs through the month of April.
On April 6 Jennings will present “Artificial Intelligence: Are Humans in Jeopardy?” The presentation is free to the public, but requires a reserved ticket It will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Boys Town Music Hall.
Jennings will describe the behind-the-scenes account of his 2011 epic battle with IBM’s “Watson,” the super-intelligent supercomputer specifically designed to beat the world’s best players at “Jeopardy!”
Beginning March 6, general admission tickets for Jennings’ presentation will be released on a first-come, first-served basis at Event Brite. There is a limit of four tickets per person. You can check nescifest.com for more information.
A Seattle native, Jennings spent 15 years in South Korea and Singapore, where his father worked as an attorney. The only lifeline to American pop culture at the time was the Armed Forces Network, where he watched “Jeopardy!” daily after school and dreamed of being a participant.
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