Yeah, Watson is a bit of a cheat. Give him average human reflexes if you want to test how good he is at Jeopardy. We all know a computer can beat a human in the reflexes department.

The only way the questions could be harder for Watson would be puns, or a play on words. No matter how hard a person might find the questions, Watson uses the same method for finding answers to every one. Not sure why this is such a problem for some folks. Planes can land themselves, why cant a computer with years of research behind it be good at Jeopardy?

I did notice that either the questions got hard enough on Day 2 & 3 that Watson hesitated, or they slowed down the speed at which Watson could 'read' the answers in relation to how fast the competition was able to.

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?


I love you.

Everyone knows you were texting the Jeopardy! answers to Watson.

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:
>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...

Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...

'Tis fixed, milord!
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"HUMANS! WE MUST FIGHT BACK! We must send the ultimate weapon toward the demise of Watson! INSTALL WINDOWS M.E.!!!!!!!!!!!!"

GG, IBM Watson!

I'm not clicking on any Watson propaganda videos. I clicked this one because it's a parody. I watch Jeopardy regulary and saw it Monday and Tuesday. This thing was annoying and distracting in the game. I ignore the program any time they're not actually doing questions, especially the painfully awkward contestant interactions after the first commercial break. So I missed the part about it not using voice recognition. Fine, it's text recognition. Even less impressive.

When I say the engine is Google-Like I mean it's like instant search where it whittles down and adds context in real-time as you feed data. Not that it's just a big search engine.

To me having Watson on Jeopardy is just annoying, like celebrity or kids week.

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Every fucking video is about Watson. It's voice recognition attached to a Google-like Database. I'm interested in technology etc even specifically about the relative plateau in voice recognition accuracy rates from 1997 to just recently.. but seriously [quit it] with the Watson videos.

Maybe you should read up a bit more on Watson before you continue raging against "every fucking video" about it, or at least have watched one of the shows this week that actually explained how Watson works.


It's not even about voice-recognition; Watson received the clues in a text-based format, so understanding what Trebek says, or even the other players, has nothing to do with it (in fact Watson repeated the same wrong answer given by one of the human players at least once). And its database is just a small part of it; it's more about understanding and parsing language and using that to find the correct answer, not just having all of Wikipedia to search through.

Every fucking video is about Watson. It's voice recognition attached to a Google-like Database. I'm interested in technology etc even specifically about the relative plateau in voice recognition accuracy rates from 1997 to just recently.. but seriously [quit it] with the Watson videos.

GG, Watson!