Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-14138255-20170328205750

Also, there was still a chance Penny could lose, in which case they got valuable data and could improve her to be better in combat. Penny doesn't appear terribly over-powered, but she is certainly a highly skilled fighter.

Instead of basketball, compare it to Jeopardy, where they built an AI contestent known as IBM's Watson (the first of his model) to demo his processing skills against the best Jeopardy players ever and won, succeeding in its goal of testing IBM's product line of knowledge management platforms and was given further enhancements to its AI.

It's a legitimate method of research testing KNN: take a computer and have it be presented live accomplishing a mundane (or even extraordinary) task, and see if it holds up.