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NOVA - Jeopardy Watson REMINDER it's on tonight, tuesday and wednesday

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Did anyone catch NOVA tonight on the computer Watson that's going to be on Jeopardy next week? Interesting show. The practice games were a hoot. Really looking forward to the Jeopardy shows.

Is it just me, or was that show amazingly white and male - in this day and age? It reminded me of the control room scenes in Apollo 13, supposedly a period piece. I'm no politically-correct fanatic, but shouldn't Artificial Intelligence include a slightly wider bunch of information?

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I am not a fan of Jeopardy but I am going to tune in next week to watch this. I would not be surprised to see the computer (Watson) win.
 
Number1 said:
I am not a fan of Jeopardy but I am going to tune in next week to watch this. I would not be surprised to see the computer (Watson) win.
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After seeing some of the practice stuff I would be surprised if it didn't completely destroy the humans. Watson is frighteningly good.
 
Bignate603 said:
After seeing some of the practice stuff I would be surprised if it didn't completely destroy the humans. Watson is frighteningly good.
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Lies. Nothing can beat Ken. As an aside I hope my wife makes the show, she normally can answer 85%+ of the questions.
 
The best test of Watson would be to listen to a political debate and supply the following: NOT TRUE - COMPLETE FABRICATION
TRUE - TO THE BEST OF TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE
NON ANSWER TO QUESTION.
If it could do this correctly, our whole political system could change overnight
 
wqualityitems said:
The best test of Watson would be to listen to a political debate and supply the following: NOT TRUE - COMPLETE FABRICATION
TRUE - TO THE BEST OF TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE
NON ANSWER TO QUESTION.
If it could do this correctly, our whole political system could change overnight
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Best first post I've ever seen. Welcome to ATOT.
 
After seeing the program, i was actually more impressed with the people solving the issues in Watsons programming than i was the Watson itself.

Because when it comes down to it, its the creators that make Watson "seem" to be intelligent when its still just a computer program.

IMO, its still just human intelligence that is doing it along with a huge data storage that never "forgets" that gives Watson an advantage.
 
wqualityitems said:
The best test of Watson would be to listen to a political debate and supply the following: NOT TRUE - COMPLETE FABRICATION
TRUE - TO THE BEST OF TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE
NON ANSWER TO QUESTION.
If it could do this correctly, our whole political system could change overnight
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We'll have to wait for the die shrink and the portable 2.0 watson for that to work, the politicians will just avoid it otherwise.
 
princess ida said:
Did anyone catch NOVA tonight on the computer Watson that's going to be on Jeopardy next week? Interesting show. The practice games were a hoot. Really looking forward to the Jeopardy shows.

Is it just me, or was that show amazingly white and male - in this day and age? It reminded me of the control room scenes in Apollo 13, supposedly a period piece. I'm no politically-correct fanatic, but shouldn't Artificial Intelligence include a slightly wider bunch of information?
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Take the smartest people you can find for the task. Doesn't matter if they're male, female, white, black, green, or hermaphrodites. 🙄
 
spidey07 said:
That's what makes jeopardy. The answer is in the pun of the question and why I don't think a computer can do it.
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If you watch the Nova episode about Watson, it starts demolishing people at the end after some tweaks. I'm pretty sure it's gonna wipe the floor with the other contestants.
 
spidey07 said:
That's what makes jeopardy. The answer is in the pun of the question and why I don't think a computer can do it.
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Watson had a ton dev time devoted to the sole purpose of getting those kinds of puns.

It can quickly categorize words, figure out their relation in the sentence, and then spit out an answer. A simple pun should be a minor speed bump in its ability to answer
 
shocksyde said:
If you watch the Nova episode about Watson, it starts demolishing people at the end after some tweaks. I'm pretty sure it's gonna wipe the floor with the other contestants.
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Hopefully the question writers purposefully tried to use words or direct the question to throw the computer off.

Needless to say I'm pretty sure the computer has his American Presidents down.
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