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Originally Posted by J pold
But I agree that arguing about Watson's buzz speed is a moot point, what it can do is amazing.
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I think the arguing about buzz speed has more to do with the integrity of the "Jeopardy" game then anything to do with Watson.
They said it was taking Watson 2.6 seconds to come up with the answer on average after it finished reading the question. If it took Ken or Brad that long they wouldn't have won a single game yet alone be the winningest players ever. Watsons got the advantage of being able to process the entire question before Ken or Brad could even recognize the first letter of the first word. Furthermore it then got the advantage of having nearly perfect timing with the buzzer.
remove those 2 advantages and although Watson would have eventually reached the right answers, it would have taken him long enough that he would have gotten white washed.