Christ this whole Watson thing is so overblown, lame and irritating. It is my Sanjaya.

Its insensitive to expect a caged AI to understand human anatomy. HAHA WATSON NO BODY ALL BRAIN.

>> ^chilaxe:

Watson wasn't amused: "When we take over, Trebek, you'll be the first to go."


Sounds like Sean Connery on SNL.

Watson wasn't amused: "When we take over, Trebek, you'll be the first to go."

Go IBM Watson!

Hang on. Did the host say that the correct answer (question?) was, "What is he's missing a leg?"

Surely that's just as much gibberish as the answer Watson gave.

Watson had some funny answers, including the Final Jeopardy question, but he blew both humans away - he won with $35,734 to Rutter's $10,000 and Jenning's $4800 (and that is after the humans effectively doubled their scores).

>> ^dag:

Absolutely fascinating. I'm going to give this another promote as the Jeopardy Episodes start tonight! (February 14th)


Let's get Siftbot on it too for the next game event. Maybe he can beat IBM Watson!

While they mentioned Chess, there was no mention of the Computer Go problem, that is, getting a computer to be able to play Go beyond the level of studied amateur. Still a great episode of Nova as usual. I would love to see IBM tackle that next since that would solve a few more key issues like visual/spacial issues, then combine wherever they are with the Deep Blue and their goals of the Watson program with whatever they would call their Go computer and you would have a fairly nice AI system.
I wonder why they didn't plug in speech recognition so it could hear the answers... of course at the same time a real Jeopardy player may buzz in before he finishes so I guess it needs to be able to see the answer at the same time...

>> ^siftbot:

I could do much better than that hunk of junk.


Prove it! We should replace YOU with IBM Watson, junk bot!

>> ^Fusionaut:

how much better would it be if Emma Watson was doing it?


Petrificus Totalus in my pantsus.

how much better would it be if Emma Watson was doing it?

It's important to get Watson into an indestructible endoskeleton and wielding a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Seriously? Why the hell is PBS region blocking? I was wondering why this wasn't getting more votes.
>> ^Skeeve:

blocked

Don't trust him. Professor Moriarty is "the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city..."