robot plays jeopardy

it's cleaning up!

kinda stupid, but fun i guess

thoughts?

all your general motors mid price hatchback and all expenses family holiday are belong to us

is that you watson?

  On 2/16/2011 at 4:43 AM, yek said:

thoughts?

Mainly that of not having a bloody clue what this topic is about.

I made an htdv antenna just so I could watch this.

http://blamcast.net/articles/how-to-make-an-hdtv-antenna

i made a wildly popular thread about this last week.

the biggest problem is the advantage watson has on the buzzer. you can tell the human contestants were getting frustrated because they knew the answers as well.

yeah, the questions were surprisingly easy last night. clearly it was coming down to millisecond timing on the buzzer. and the computer has an unfair advantage there, because it's given a signal when it's allowed to buzz in. meanwhile the humans have to do it by ear. it's kind of embarrassing, really.

It's being fed the question by text, so i suppose it's all about when watson receives that text. Is it as the host starts reading the question or is it as the host finishes the question? The problem is that if it's given as the host finishes the question the humans would then have the advantage, so it's tricky.

Obviously, as it cant hear what's being said by the other contestants it wont learn from any incorrect answers given like the other contestants can. So there's a disadvantage. I heard that in the first show, it gave an incorrect answer after another contestant had already given it.

It's all trivial stuff really though because it'll be much better again in 12 months time while we puny humans stagnate

  On 2/16/2011 at 6:35 PM, chaosmachine said:

yeah, the questions were surprisingly easy last night. clearly it was coming down to millisecond timing on the buzzer. and the computer has an unfair advantage there, because it's given a signal when it's allowed to buzz in. meanwhile the humans have to do it by ear. it's kind of embarrassing, really.

they actually do it by sight... the board lights up when you are allowed to buzz in

  On 2/16/2011 at 6:51 PM, Rambo said:

It's being fed the question by text, so i suppose it's all about when watson receives that text. Is it as the host starts reading the question or is it as the host finishes the question? The problem is that if it's given as the host finishes the question the humans would then have the advantage, so it's tricky.

 

Obviously, as it cant hear what's being said by the other contestants it wont learn from any incorrect answers given like the other contestants can. So there's a disadvantage. I heard that in the first show, it gave an incorrect answer after another contestant had already given it.

 

It's all trivial stuff really though because it'll be much better again in 12 months time while we puny humans stagnate

yeah really watson is playing a different competition.

basically this is all one big (albeit entertaining) IBM ad.

should have done it deep blue style, where the computer generates an answer, but it's still a human moving the pieces and punching the clock.

or at least have it using a camera to OCR the question off the screens...

more like Twatson

if they made watson do the whole thing by speech recognition it'd be a better test. knowing the answers is only about 20% of doing well on a quiz show. the rest is coping with the nerves, disorientation, processing the host's rapidfire speech while nervous and disorientated etc

  On 2/16/2011 at 7:12 PM, Fred McGriff said:

yeah really watson is playing a different competition.

 

basically this is all one big (albeit entertaining) IBM ad.

It's captured the imagination though, it's good stuff. The bit that interests me the most is how we are going to use it in the future. I'm sure google have been working on their answer to this for a while. This seems to be the next logical direction for search, sort of almost like a personal assistant for your searches and interneting and so forth.

  On 2/16/2011 at 7:10 PM, Fred McGriff said:

  On 2/16/2011 at 6:35 PM, chaosmachine said:

yeah, the questions were surprisingly easy last night. clearly it was coming down to millisecond timing on the buzzer. and the computer has an unfair advantage there, because it's given a signal when it's allowed to buzz in. meanwhile the humans have to do it by ear. it's kind of embarrassing, really.

 

they actually do it by sight... the board lights up when you are allowed to buzz in

Yep, they all get to see the whole question before alex is done reading. right around the end of the question, a light comes on and they can buzz in. Watson has a camera pointed at the light and only buzzes in if he has narrowed down an answer that it is cetain about. Watson also doesn't get to buzz in electronically, he buzzes in mechanically with a robotic thumb. Still, he is super fast. you can see ken holds his buzzer up and is trying pretty hard to be first.

oh Watson you sly dog

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