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Man Vs. Machine Starting NOW on the East Coast. West coast stay out for now!

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
edited February 2011 in Social Entropy++
Tonight on Jeopardy it is Watson, the IBM-made computer vs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter

http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/?cn=agus_watson-20100712&cm=k&csr=google&cr=jeopardy_computer&ct=USJWK002&S_TACT=USJWK002&ck=jeopardy_computer&cmp=00000&mkwid=sVxT2m2Uc_9199408173_432ub83684

I'm really interested in watching this. Should be good stuff. Watson may be the beginning of computers taking over mankind.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    unless it gets fucked in the street

    we still have hope against wikipedia bot

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i vote for man

    sweet, sweet man

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Also, I guess this is the starting time for the east coast. If you live anywhere else I don't know when the fuck it is on.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    EAST COAST IS BEAST COAST

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Here we go!

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Just ended for me. Can I spoil it for you guys? :P

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    SeñorAmor wrote: »
    Just ended for me. Can I spoil it for you guys? :P

    Preferably not.

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    This is kind of interesting. Not interesting enough to actually watch Jeopardy, but still interesting.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    SLyM wrote: »
    This is kind of interesting. Not interesting enough to actually watch Jeopardy, but still interesting.

    But it is 9 million IBM servers vs a couple of nerds!

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    That's the interesting part. The Jeopardy part is the part I don't wanna watch.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Jesus, start the fucking game!

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    SeñorAmor wrote: »
    Just ended for me. Can I spoil it for you guys? :P

    Preferably not.

    Too bad.

    Watson gets hacked and starts showing porn during the first round. Midget porn, IIRC. Alex and Ken whip it out and shout, "HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS DAILY DOUBLE, BITCH?"

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Just set up my TiVo to catch it when it comes on here.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    SLyM wrote: »
    That's the interesting part. The Jeopardy part is the part I don't wanna watch.

    that's stupid.

    Jeopardy is great

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Holy shit Watson is rolling through. This is so goddamn cool. I am nerding out about this.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    anyone know a live stream?

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Watson is cleaning fucking house. Four times the cash of the other opponent, while third has a mere 200 bucks at the break.

    This isn't fair.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    I just wonder how fair is the buzzing in process? Doesn't Watson have super fast reflexes compared to the fleshsacks?

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I was was wondering about that but at the speed it takes to determine an answer sometimes makes up for it.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    He often speaks of the coming war between man and The Brotherhood of Machines.

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Are you guys seriously spoiling this for the west coast? or did they move Jeopardy up to show it live in all markets?

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Watson got one wrong!

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    yeah seriously stop spoiling you asses

    that's what the spoiler tags are for

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    LTM wrote: »
    Are you guys seriously spoiling this for the west coast? or did they move Jeopardy up to show it live in all markets?

    I changed the title

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Watson isn't as hot as you guys were saying.

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  • LTMLTM Bikes and BeardsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »
    LTM wrote: »
    Are you guys seriously spoiling this for the west coast? or did they move Jeopardy up to show it live in all markets?

    I changed the title

    Sufficient.

    :P

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    I want to talk about it now without a spoiler tag in every post so west coast people can just keep out for now.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    He was doing awesome but then Brad rallied hard.

    Tied at the second break.

    EDIT: Watson also made some silly mistakes, someone said "1920s", Alex responded "No", then Watson said the same thing.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Alex got snarky with Watson when he gave the same answer Ken just gave.

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  • MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Watson just went haywire, connected to the internet, made skynet, became sentient and now we are all going to die.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    This was interesting. I got the impression Alex didn't care for Watson.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    #pipe wrote: »
    yeah seriously stop spoiling you asses

    that's what the spoiler tags are for

    Mine wasn't real.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    so is watson basically the 20 questions genie script?

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  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I read that watson isn't actually connected to the internet. Otherwise it would just answer "what is the n-word" for every question.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Wow Watson sort of fell apart in the second half. Part of it is probably the human players adapting and stepping up their game though.

    Also it's slightly unfair that it doesn't seem to have any knowledge of what other players answer.

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  • MetacortexMetacortex The Prettiest Zombie Coeur d'CoeursRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Then Alex got real snotty about it. Even after he specifically said it can't see or hear.

    After Alex said "no, Ken already said that", Watson should have been all "yeah, well I already slept with your mother, Trebek."

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    They should basically implant Sean Connery's personality in Watson.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I don't quite understand the point of this

    I mean, there's very little skill involved here

    Just having a vast store of information

    Which computers are supposed to do

    It's like having a fight with a library

    What is the part that we are comparing man to machine?

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  • MetacortexMetacortex The Prettiest Zombie Coeur d'CoeursRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Well the primary thing, from what I understand, is that Watson is able to understand the language of the Jeopardy answers, which are often filled with wordplay and hidden meanings.

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