My money is on our species!!!
My money is on our species!!!
It seemed like Watson was gonna roll early, but he looked ironically human as today's round wore on. This will be interesting to watch over the next couple days.
I'm thinking humans, too. But it highly depends on the categories. To much wordplay, and the computer will be sunk. There was a great NOVA segment over the weekend. Sorry I'll miss it, should be fun.
lucKY2b wrote:
To much wordplay, and the computer will be sunk.
er...Too much word play....oops.
Can Watson overcome poor grammar?
jjjjjjjjj wrote:
I was thinking that IBM would not enter the contest if it did not know that it would win already. Is that not happening?
Actually, I think it was more the other way around. Jeopardy producers didn't want Watson on the show unless it could compete and not have too many really bonehead glitches. At least that is the impression I got from the NOVA episode.
That was one of the more entertaining NOVAs in a while. I want to see Watson do well, but how do you root against our guys?
who won?
It's two games spread out over three days, and with all the preliminary information and explanations they're only halfway through the first game. I think, hmm...Watson and a human tied and Ken Jennings in third? I can't remember how it ended but the next two days should be pretty interesting. I was curious that Watson repeated one incorrect answer that Jennings had already said. Human contestants do that occasionally but shouldn't Watson be set up not to do that?
Watson is text fed the Q's. I do not know if it also gets text fed the other contestants answers.
I have it on tape and am interested in looking at the confidence bar that shows the top three choices Watson had to pick from.
On the big Watson gaff: it answered milk yet the clue was non-dairy. I bet the AlGoreRhythm broke the non and dairy apart and the correct answer Coffee-mate(brand) got split too. Friend/mate connection too bloody Brit skewed?
Knew 17 of the 30 answers and that is pretty average for me rarely go under 15 right and rarely go over 23 or 24 right. So I'd say the difficulty level of the questions was average or a tad harder than average.
No kids means I never view movies,read books or follow things of the Harry Potter/very modern teen centric pop culture ilk. I tend to blow them. Tonight was no exception.
Someone said the IBMers might tweek the machine after this game but I doubt that would be allowed. Since it is self-assessing I would think that humans sticking a screwdriver in it after one set of questions would not really help anymore that what Watson came up with itself.
Since I used a sliderule during my school years all this Computer Tech stuff amazes me.
couldnt they just program it so that it rings in first every time? They clearly have a delay to give humans a chance...
Computer crushes the competition on 'Jeopardy!'