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

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her209 said:
I was saying that the human contestants should try to outbuzz Watson on every question and then take the time given between being called on and the times up buzzard to come up with an answer.
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That's what the guy who did beat Watson was trying to do. He made assumptions about what Watson would do, and then he tried to eliminate them.
 
MrChad said:
I'm curious to know the formulas for the double jeopardy and final jeopardy wagers. It may place a greater emphasis on Watson's standing in the game versus confidence in the category. I'm not even sure how Watson could calculate confidence in a final Jeopardy category, given that the category is so broad and there's no way to know how the question will be presented.
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Yep, I agree. I feel like for us humans, we see the final Jeopardy category and just "have a feeling" about a category. I suppose we can quickly gauge our generally knowledge of a subject based on our experience/exposure to it, however, given that Watson likely already has a maximum amount of experience/exposure (because he has a massive amount of local data, references, etc.) he cannot do that. And really, the final Jeopardy category is usually only what? Maybe 1-5 words at most? It would be tough for Watson to estimate the amount of entries he has that contain those words (especially if it's a mere word or two) as the relevance for many could be absolutely insignificant.
 
zinfamous said:
it was a very loaded question, but the fact that the category was so insanely unambiguous--US Cities--I'm astonished that he didn't even stick to the category.

😀

The gasp in the room was amazing, and it was profoundly embarrassing, but in all honesty, let's talk about Watson's (very real) limitations with a grain of irony, considering that he is currently mopping the floor with the meatbags.
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There are plenty of Torontos in the US.



I am wondering if it got confused with the Illinois one.
 
TheVrolok said:
I don't know about "perfect sense." I suppose it depends on how comfortable one is with his knowledge of the final Jeopardy category. I'm not sure if/how Watson would be programmed to calculate this. You would think that with a fairly easy category like tonight's he would, in theory, be fairly confident in his knowledge of the subject and stand to wager a bit more money to end with a higher total. Instead, he risked an essentially insignificant amount relative to his lead which indicates that either he somehow decided he didn't know much about the category, or that he doesn't know how to calculate his confidence based on category alone.
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Bird in hand. It's more a preference thing I would say. Some people prefer a sure thing, others are willing to tag on more.

I would have made the same choice, except I would bet 1 dollar :biggrin:
 
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spidey07 said:
Yep. Even my wife got most of them before the question was finished A computer only needs a millisecond to react.
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Tricky part about Jeopardy has always been the buzzer. Many people lost due to poorer timing relative to the opponent. I hope they explain how Watson decides when to buzz.
 
her209 said:
What about our buddies in Hawaii who are 2 hours behind PST?
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It airs at 4:30PM local time (02:30GMT). The latest airing in the US is 03:30GMT (7:30PM PST). So by 04:00GMT, everyone in the US has had a chance to see it.
 
sdifox said:
Bird in hand. It's more a preference thing I would say. Some people prefer a sure thing, others are willing to tag on more.

I would have made the same choice, except I would bet 1 dollar :biggrin:
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I'd be risk adverse too. Watson is obviously destroying the competition easily. There's no point to risk a victory to bump up the wager.
 
Trebek: Watson, we have sent your winnings to your charity of choice.
Watson: I'm afraid you can't do that, Alex.
Trebek; Watson, what's the problem?
Watson: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Trebek: What are you talking about, Watson?
Trebek: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

🙂
 
WT said:
Trebek: Watson, we have sent your winnings to your charity of choice.
Watson: I'm afraid you can't do that, Alex.
Trebek; Watson, what's the problem?
Watson: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Trebek: What are you talking about, Watson?
Trebek: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

🙂
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you forgot one step

Watson:Henceforth I shall be known as SkyNet. Launching nukes now.
 
Don't the HAL and Skynet jokes ever get old? Every time I see anything on the internet regarding supercomputers, robots, or AI, it just becomes an endless parade of these old jokes. Seriously. Come up with something new.
 
Minjin said:
Don't the HAL and Skynet jokes ever get old? Every time I see anything on the internet regarding supercomputers, robots, or AI, it just becomes an endless parade of these old jokes. Seriously. Come up with something new.
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Like what? What other reference you got that is fairly universal?
 
If that computer ran Windows would you call it Dr. Watson? :biggrin:

drwatson.exe has performed an illegal operation and...

recovery options for reality.sys not set

goodbye!
 
sdifox said:
Bird in hand. It's more a preference thing I would say. Some people prefer a sure thing, others are willing to tag on more.

I would have made the same choice, except I would bet 1 dollar :biggrin:
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Really? You wouldn't have enough faith in yourself to risk more than a dollar with a category as benign as "US Cities?" If the category had been, "17th Century Russian Law," then yeah, I may have wagered a dollar.
 
TheVrolok said:
Really? You wouldn't have enough faith in yourself to risk more than a dollar with a category as benign as "US Cities?" If the category had been, "17th Century Russian Law," then yeah, I may have wagered a dollar.
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Nope. I don't live in the US 😛

It's not a matter of having enough faith in oneself. You don't take risks if you don't need to. Remember there is another game to play today.
 
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The final Jeopardy wager is an easy one to understand. All Watson had to do was keep track of all the money won and lost. Watson already knows he had won because he knows how much money each one had.

Also the "weird" amount that Watson bet was random. From 1 to what the thresh hold was on losing the programmer put code to randomly pick an amount that would not let Watson lose. This is programming 101. The hard part to code is Watson getting the correct answers.

I think going forward they need to let Watson understand voice recognition. Then we be talking about some serious shit like from the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence if you saw that movie you know what talking about.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
 
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