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Homerboy said:
Where the hell is this airing right now anyways? that it's over by 4pm CST?
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NY, NY airs at 5 est, but that means it just started/almost over.
Evansville, IN airs at 1:30pm (i think they are est)... (WTF)
somewhere in texas airs at 11 AM (HUH)
Wisconsin has areas that air at 4:30 (cst though)

think i found where he is at...
Panama City, FL: 4:30PM

or is Birmingham, AL EST or CST? because it also airs at 4:30 there...
and at 9:30 AM in Montgomery, AL

Jonesboro, AR at 12:06PM
Little-Rock at 11 AM
 
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MikeMike said:
NY, NY airs at 5 est, but that means it just started/almost over.
Evansville, IN airs at 1:30pm (i think they are est)... (WTF)
somewhere in texas airs at 11 AM (HUH)
Wisconsin has areas that air at 4:30 (cst though)

think i found where he is at...
Panama City, FL: 4:30PM
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had not idea it was all over the map time schedule wise. I just assumed it was 7pm EST and all subsequent time zones fell into place (6pm CST etc etc)

Regardless.... this blows.
 
Haven't Read about/Watched any of this, but my first impression was to wonder how this would work when the Computer would have access to a complete Database of Information? Seems rather pointless an exercise.

Then I mused about Wireless connectivity and Googling for answers. However, that seemed rather iffy and risky, because "The Capital of Arkansas" could return "What is, Anal dog sex Alex". Then it dawned on me that a complete Database of accurate information would virtually always contain the correct answer. Then I shat brix because that is completely feasible and we could have millions of Asimo's wondering around which can always answer any query we gave it with our current technology. 😱😱
 
Homerboy said:
had not idea it was all over the map time schedule wise. I just assumed it was 7pm EST and all subsequent time zones fell into place (6pm CST etc etc)

Regardless.... this blows.
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I didn't realize it aired at different times either, but I learned pretty quickly yesterday after I posted. My post was not nearly as bad as what Skorpio did, and at least I went back and added spoiler tags within minutes.
 
Homerboy said:
Details? Yes. Results before they aired to 90% of the populace? No.
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I came here looking for them myself since I can't watch it tonight. It isn't unreasonable to expect someone will post it.

I still agree it should be under spoiler tags though.
 
sandorski said:
Haven't Read about/Watched any of this, but my first impression was to wonder how this would work when the Computer would have access to a complete Database of Information? Seems rather pointless an exercise.

Then I mused about Wireless connectivity and Googling for answers. However, that seemed rather iffy and risky, because "The Capital of Arkansas" could return "What is, Anal dog sex Alex". Then it dawned on me that a complete Database of accurate information would virtually always contain the correct answer. Then I shat brix because that is completely feasible and we could have millions of Asimo's wondering around which can always answer any query we gave it with our current technology. 😱😱
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the part being tested is the understanding the question part.

Please no discussion of today's events til after it airs on the west coast. Even though I am at the east coast, I don't think I want to ruin it for someone else.
 
It's absolutely amazing to me how much processing power we need to try and mimic things that happen on the fly in our brain with out or awareness.
 
bfdd said:
It's absolutely amazing to me how much processing power we need to try and mimic things that happen on the fly in our brain with out or awareness.
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free association is our forté. Not so much computers. we are vastly parallel but relatively low clock cycle. They are single task but high clock cycle.
 
sdifox said:
the part being tested is the understanding the question part.

Please no discussion of today's events til after it airs on the west coast. Even though I am at the east coast, I don't think I want to ruin it for someone else.
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Ahh, so Anal Dog Sex could be an answer!
 
sandorski said:
Ahh, so Anal Dog Sex could be an answer!
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we have already seen some goofs along those lines. Especially funny is the non-dairy question and Watson's answer was milk.

That was during training. I figure it gets better as it spends more time playing the game.


would be epic if Watson picks Ana's Lex as an answer :biggrin:
 
Here in NJ on Cablevision we have to wait till 7:00PM on ABC CH07 to see it. .We used to get WLNY TV-55 Long Island, which does air it at 5:00PM .. not anymore for us on Cablevision here. It was nice to see it early some nights.
 
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2...ardy-almost-sneaks-wrong-answer-by-trebek.ars

During a commercial after Watson's decade gaffe, Welty noted that the team thought the ability to process other players' wrong answers would be unnecessary. "We just didn't think it would ever happen," Welty said, laughing.
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sdifox said:
free association is our forté. Not so much computers. we are vastly parallel but relatively low clock cycle. They are single task but high clock cycle.
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true, but each of those cores is like a neuron or group of neurons and we still haven't got close to replicating the human brain yet.
sandorski said:
:biggrin: I could see why they dismissed it though.
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honestly it sounds like they were full of ego. in fact i'm now less impressed with creators of Watson since it doesn't have that capability yet.
 
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