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Watson is killing them with the easy ones but I can see the tide turning in double jeopardy. And I don't want to say "fixed" but Watson choosing the Daily Double on his FIRST clue selection was a little bizarre, we got the see the stupid globe thing spinning as it "thought" which was probably the point.
 
At the 36 minute mark in that PBS special, what app is that? Where he can speak English into it and it translates into and speaks the Chinese.
 
Watson has a decidedly unfair advantage in my eyes. He receives the answers via a text file as they are revealed to the other contestants. My P100 could chew through 20 words in a text file in milliseconds. Watson is off "thinking" before the contestants hear the 1st syllable.
 
microsoft needs to buy watson asap. throw him in the microsoft cloud, and let people ask it questions through bing search. eat your heart out google😉
 
Homerboy said:
Watson has a decidedly unfair advantage in my eyes. He receives the answers via a text file as they are revealed to the other contestants. My P100 could chew through 20 words in a text file in milliseconds. Watson is off "thinking" before the contestants hear the 1st syllable.
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🙄 why is so many so unimpressed before they even see it in action? waston doesnt have a human brain!! and you say he has an advantage? hes just a clusterfuck of transistors!
 
Homerboy said:
Watson has a decidedly unfair advantage in my eyes. He receives the answers via a text file as they are revealed to the other contestants. My P100 could chew through 20 words in a text file in milliseconds. Watson is off "thinking" before the contestants hear the 1st syllable.
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I'm surprised they didn't have camera & mic's setup for Watson to read and listen to the question?
 
wirednuts said:
🙄 why is so many so unimpressed before they even see it in action? waston doesnt have a human brain!! and you say he has an advantage? hes just a clusterfuck of transistors!
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Uhhh its on right now. I'm seeing it inaction. My point still stands. I think Watson has an advantage in the regard I listed.
 
Homerboy said:
Uhhh its on right now. I'm seeing it inaction. My point still stands. I think Watson has an advantage in the regard I listed.
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Watson also has the advantage of encyclopedic knowledge of just about everything. They are just using the computer's strengths to make up for its weaknesses. I don't see anything wrong with the way they are doing it.

They could have done a visual reading of the clue, but all that would do is make it take a few milliseconds longer.

Basically Watson solves things in a very different manor than humans, so it is to be expected that it will do things differently.
 
He can't hear so he doesn't know what the other players say.

I thought it was interesting that Watson took the chance on an answer that was below his ring in threshold.
 
ultimatebob said:
Wow... there is several million dollars worth of IBM's top equipment in those racks. They aren't screwing around!
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some stats
• Watson is self-contained and not connected to the Internet.
• Internally it uses a 10 GigE fiber interconnect with a line-rate switch in the middle.
• The actual hardware is 1 IBM J16E (EX8216) switch populated with 15 x 10 GbE line cards.
• OS is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
• 90 IBM Power 750 servers, totaling 2880 POWER7 cores running at 3.55Ghz each
• 16 Terabytes of memory
• 500 GB/sec on-chip bandwidth,
• Power consumption is 30KW per rack and does not include cooling consumption
• Heat created per rack is 108,000 BTU/h
• Recommended ambient remain below 80F
• Each rack weighs 2100lbs
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I couldn't even afford to pay for the power usage !
 
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