First off, I think it's naive to assume it would be that easy to do as well as Watson. Talk is cheap. More importantly, though, Watson isn't /really/ about sol

First off, I think it's naive to assume it would be that easy to do as well as Watson. Talk is cheap. More importantly, though, Watson isn't /really/ about solving Jeopardy. It's a more general AI designed to provide concise answers to arbitrary questions posed in arbitrary natural language. I have absolutely no source for this, but it's probably reasonable to assume that Watson has the most sophisticated understanding of human language of any computer system to date. This is much bigger than a quiz show.