The entire world witnessed a man match wits with a machine on Jeopardy as the IBM supercomputer Watson had a face off against a couple of the most popular and famous human champs on the quiz show.

For a straight three days the world was glued on to witness how IBM’s Watson supercomputer would score in the two-game tournament against the two humans. And, in the battle between man and machine, it was the machine that saw victory.

For this win of Watson, the scientists fed Waston around 200 million pages of text, grossing to about a million books, starting right from encyclopedias to movie scripts to newspapers and even to abstracts from children’s books. And with a memory space large enough to store all that information, Watson was able to dig through his memory and formulate contextual relationships.

Therefore it can do puns as well as wordplay. It doesn’t even have any problem with obscuring trivia. Neither does it have any issue with putting together random facts.

According to IBM scientists, Watson’s Deep Q&A technology can be used in health care, legal education as well as in the government.