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

[MustISO]

Glad I saw this post, DVR is set.

 

[bruceb]

Looking forward to seeing Ken Jennings beat (hopefully) Watson.
Some questions on Jeopardy are so trickily worded, you need a
human's interpretation to even come close to the correct answers.

 

[rivan]

Glad I saw this post, DVR is set.

Ditto. Nova was interesting, as usual 🙂

 

[Modelworks]

I watched all 3 programs Nova showed that night , starting with the animal intelligence. I didn't really consider how hard Jeopardy is for a computer until I watched Nova. It really is tough for a computer to even get the question right and then has to decide how the data applies to things that might be sarcasm or jokes.

Skynet in the making .

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html

 

[BeauJangles]

Looking forward to seeing Ken Jennings beat (hopefully) Watson.
Some questions on Jeopardy are so trickily worded, you need a
human's interpretation to even come close to the correct answers.

Have you seen what Watson can do? It's pretty unbelievable.

It answers questions, on average, at the same level that Ken Jennings does. It definitely has weaknesses in understanding, but its knowledge base is excellent and the machine learning algo they developed to teach it to play jeopardy is remarkable. Hell, it's ability to learn on the fly is ridiculous.

I have almost zero doubt that Watson will win.

 

[Homerboy]

DVR is set and I also want to watch these NOVA shows too... super cool.

 

[ultimatebob]

It's all fun and games until Watson becomes self-aware and the engineers try to pull the plug.

 

[BrokenVisage]

marked

 

[BeauJangles]

It's all fun and games until Watson becomes self-aware and the engineers try to pull the plug.

I wonder if asking it a question about HAL will cause Watson to self-destruct or fly into a murderous rage.

 

[Homerboy]

I wonder if asking it a question about HAL will cause Watson to self-destruct or fly into a murderous rage.

you know they will have "funny questions" about SkyNet, HAL etc written for tonight's show.

 

[nanette1985]

you know they will have "funny questions" about SkyNet, HAL etc written for tonight's show.

This. IMHO it all depends on the writers of the questions. If they really want a human to win, they'll use all new & really clever writers so that the computer doesn't have a chance to assimilate anything into its information bank.

I'm rooting for Ken, my own species.

 

[spidey07]

If the humans were smart they'd go for the top dollar amounts right away before the computer can pick up on the pattern of the category and when it does the dollar amounts won't be much.

 

[0roo0roo]

This. IMHO it all depends on the writers of the questions. If they really want a human to win, they'll use all new & really clever writers so that the computer doesn't have a chance to assimilate anything into its information bank.

I'm rooting for Ken, my own species.

i'm rooting for watson.
so eventually you can ask your computer or phone stupid questions and get an answer :awe:

 

[spidey07]

i'm rooting for watson.
so eventually you can ask your computer or phone stupid questions and get an answer :awe:

Actually you'd get a question. "Who are people that have never been in my kitchen."

 

[SKORPI0]

wow, the 2 human contestants are getting owned. :\

 

[zinfamous]

Lies. Nothing can beat Ken. As an aside I hope my wife makes the show, she normally can answer 85%+ of the questions.

Idonknow...Ken lost when he couldn't answer a question about his own employer. 😀

 

[zinfamous]

If the humans were smart they'd go for the top dollar amounts right away before the computer can pick up on the pattern of the category and when it does the dollar amounts won't be much.

:thumbsup:

 

[mcurphy]

Lol, this is awesome!

Spoiler

Watson: What is Leg?
Alex: Wrong...What is missing a leg.


Watson: What is 1920?
Alex: Wrong...Ken already said 1920...

lmao. I find it very amusing when Watson is wrong. 😛

Spoiler

The game is close so far!

Very entertaining.

 

[MikeMike]

arg, stop spoiling, or put it in spoiler text... it doesnt air everywhere at the same time... it isnt until 7:30 here where i am at...

 

[bruceb]

Yeah, who's the wise guy giving us the results before hand ? ?
We want to watch it ourselves and in NY area it is at 7:00PM

 

[zinfamous]

howtf are you watching this already?????

 

[mcurphy]

Sorry for the spoilers, I didn't realize it aired at different times.

It was on here at 4:30pm CST.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

i'm hoping for some extremely funny answers

 

[zerocool84]

Yes please no spoilers, use tags. This does't come on over here for another 4hrs.

 

[TallBill]

This project is difficult on so many different levels!