IBM’s Watson computer won Jeopardy last night against its two most successful human players. While Watson cooled off underneath the special Jeopardy stage IBM built for the purpose of showing off their storied new brand name, the audience could be heard cheering: it was largely the sound of the humans that built him – er, it.Also cheering, louder than we’re used to hearing on Jeopardy: likely the humans who arranged one of the most spectacular – and suspiciously easy – marketing coups in television history.But man, was it smart. When Watson responded “staggering genius” to a question about Dave Eggers, it almost sounds like it’s winking at Trebek, like it’s trying to make a point with double entendre. It was right.But how strong is Watson? A PBS producer may or may not have broken a confidentiality agreement in saying Watson crashed multiple times during the January taping, before correcting himself: it wasn’t Watson, but the computer that carried questions from the Jeopardy computer to Watson that crashed.Even if crashing would be “the worst thing that could happen,” one of IBM’s engineers say in this Watson trailer, it occurs to me that Watson’s crashing wouldn’t be consolation for us other humans. It would be disconcerting, terrifying even. If I ever have any hope of being on Jeopardy, I’m going to need a Watson clones, and I certainly wouldn’t want it crashing if it meant a new SUV or something like that.Just joking. Right, Watson? Right?