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Your new overlord: IBM's Watson on Jeopardy tonight
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"Insufficient data for meaningful answer."
"What screen and data, shown to a computer user, will be both incomprehensible yet inspire rage and despair?"
Also this seems like a nice advancement in an AI being able to understand human speaking patterns, universal translator anyone?
No, superior spambots will be the real outcome.
did they put on veterans against it?
that would really suck if you were one of those people who studied their butts off and waited years for a chance to be on the show only to get called up to play a goddamn computer
Yeah, they pit it against Ken Jennings and someone else I don't know but who won a lot. It was interesting, it completely dominated the first half of the game and then was pretty poor in the second half.
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I'm curious to see how Watson handles the Stupid Anecdotes About Yourself segment of the show.
like it tried to answer the same wrong answer a few times
Buzzer speed/timing is as important as actual knowledge on Jeopardy. During Ken Jennings' streak, he remarked that he felt he had an advantage over his challengers due to his familiarity with the buzzers. But this is supposed to display Watson vs humans as search engines, not buzzer-pressing machines. We already know machines can perform simple mechanical tasks much faster than people.
OH COME ON!
edit: Am I'm kind of annoyed that this isn't three full games. The last episode, if its just Final Jeopardy, will be boring as fuck.
Well, for one, players can read the text, too. They don't have to wait for Trebek to finish talking to know the question. I don't see that part as explicitly unfair. I imagine it takes Watson some amount of real-world time to parse the questions. The other part, yeah. Watson either thinks it knows the answer and it rings in first (from what I saw from the CES videos), or it doesn't ring in at all.
And that's why we're playing for charity!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
This too
And it seemed to me that it learned a bit. For a lot of the early "Name The Decade" questions, Watson had some secondary choices that weren't decades, they were random things like names or people. Then it gradually switched all it's choices to predominately years, and then finally to predominately decades.
buck futter!
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Why not just read the thread after you have watched it? Sounds silly I know.
I love Watson, I totes want him to win
:^:
All in all amazing step towards some actually intelligent AI.
I never asked for this!
I can understand that with Deep Blue, due to the type of game chess is. Watson seems like a giant step forward from what the Deep Blue computer was capable of though. Its hard to see how its cheating at Jeopardy though when a human can put emotions and real world experience behind words, whereas Watson can only look through text after text.
they've already taught it to love
Great.
Next it'll learn to hate.
Worse possibility? It may start pondering its own existence.
Then?
Rampant.
Why I fear the ocean.
Might be fun.
But naming them all Watson? Confusing. Let's leave that name to the original. New ones need new names.
Let's see. A scientist wouldn't be a bad chance. Let's go with an astronomer. Seeing the stars and suchlike. Tycho Brahe seems fitting considering where we're posting.
Maybe an inanimate object for the second. Sword of legend or something for intimidation. Not Excalibur or Cortana, too cliche. Maybe Roland's sword. Indestructability of learning or summat.
And why not a girl name for the third one, add some diversity. Let's go with a Doctor Who reference. Cavewoman was Leela, right? For the double Futurama reference points.
Should be an interesting set-up.
Why I fear the ocean.
So just remember when Skynet is sending wave after wave of exoskeletons to wipe out your human resistance cell, your only hope is Cheer with colorguard.
Ken buzzes in no matter what!
EDIT: In all seriousness though it would be fascinating to watch how each of them computes the question and checks out data and the like. Would they all come up with the exact same answers, buzz in at the exact same instances? Or is there enough variability that they'd come up with a wider range of solutions?
They said at one point they're playing two games over three days. I figure the first two days will probably be one game, in order to have plenty of time to talk about the technology, and the third day will likely be a complete game.
They would have to program some kind of personality into each to give them any kind of variability.
Hey, entropy. We're back at the joke I made earlier.
It doesn't actually hear anything, so has no way to "know" what the other contestants answered.
Yeah, between Watson and the other guy (who actually held his own with Watson), Ken started trying to game the system just by being the first to buzz in. Kind of fun to watch him pull the right answer out of nowhere when he clearly didn't know it before buzzing in (but he still didn't end up doing too well).
Did the other guy beat Ken in any of those tournaments he won?