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Originally Posted by peter12
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Make no doubt, it is truly amazing. The patterns that must be recognized to answer even the simplest question correct are extremely complex. The real problem is understanding the question AND putting it into the proper perspective of the category, then build and execute the proper queries to get the possible right answers. Then it needs to rank those answers, determine if the certainty is high enough to make an answer and then buzz in..
For example answering a simple question like: "When were Oreo cookies and crossword puzzles invented?" wouldn't be hard because the question is straightforward you can easily determine what it is asking by processing basic linguistic rules in a deterministic fashion. The you simply need to reference any number of databases to find the answer.
Change that to a Jeopardy Style "answer" in the category of (Name the Decade)and you get: "The first modern crossword puzzle is published & Oreo cookies are introduced" and things get more complex.
First you need to determine that the what the category is asking for, which in this case isn't that hard, but at any rate is still very important or you might be picking an answer that is totally inappropriate (Like answering Toronto as the name of a US city). Then you need to parse the question to get the important details.
Bottom line is, 5 seconds with Google and any 12 year old could tell you that they came out in 1912 but Watson got it wrong on Monday.