IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 12:16 AM UTC

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

Is there somewhere to watch this online?

Post by lorax » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 12:23 AM UTC

Post by andrewce » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 12:58 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #90

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

Is there somewhere to watch this online?

Looks like IBM will have it online in a few days http://twitter.com/#!/IBMWatson/status/37223337453158400

Post by dandelany » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 1:53 AM UTC

kenjackson wrote: post #94

icefox wrote: post #84

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I would have to disagree. Every bit of information helps. I was even surprised that they didn't implement a voice to text system so that he could learn what the other contestable guessed incorrectly and utilize that information if only to not guess the same thing on his turn.

They have added this. This was actually a problem in earlier versions where it would sometimes guess the exact same wrong answer as a previous contestant.

Post by brown9-2 » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 2:19 AM UTC

dandelany wrote: post #118

kenjackson wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have added this. This was actually a problem in earlier versions where it would sometimes guess the exact same wrong answer as a previous contestant.

This happened on the first episode tonight... Ken Jennings guessed "1920s" and Watson guessed the same thing Either they ended up not implementing this, or Watson didn't hear him correctly :)