02-14-2011, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Spoilers for those that haven't watched the first show yet...
Brad and the IBM Watson are tied after the Jeopardy round at 5000, I forget what Ken is at, but he is lagging behind. He seemed to be getting frustrated and was just buzzing it for any answer at one point and just giving his best guess.
Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy rounds are tomorrow.
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Jennings was at $2000, I think.
And you're right about the buzzer. Watson has a huge advantage when it knows the answer with sufficient certainty because it can buzz in so quickly (and do so over and over). I also love the animated swirls on the "avatar" It's very cool to see the response when it gets a question right, or to watch it churn away when unsure.
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02-14-2011, 08:15 PM
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#22
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First Line Centre
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LOL
Alex:This decade showed the invention of the Oreo and something else.
Ken: 1920
Alex: No, Watson
Watson: 1920
Alex: No, thats what Ken just said.
That and the non-dairy answer in the trials were awesome.
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02-14-2011, 08:18 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Raekwon
Watson: 1920
Alex: No, thats what Ken just said..
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Ken glaring at "Watson" after that answer was hilarious.
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02-14-2011, 08:21 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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After seeing the first show, I am in complete awe about Watson. I find myself rooting for the humans but we'll see how it plays out.
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02-14-2011, 10:18 PM
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Watson was very cool to watch
He will likely take over the world within the next decade, and I for one welcome it
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02-15-2011, 07:15 AM
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First Line Centre
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As far as i'm concerned if Ken Jennings and Watson both guess the same answer its correct 
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02-15-2011, 10:49 AM
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Dances with Wolves
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Spoilers for those that haven't watched the first show yet...
Brad and the IBM Watson are tied after the Jeopardy round at 5000, I forget what Ken is at, but he is lagging behind. He seemed to be getting frustrated and was just buzzing it for any answer at one point and just giving his best guess.
Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy rounds are tomorrow.
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I remember Ken attributed most of his success to his buzzing in ability. He claimed that most players know the answers but aren't as good as him at buzzing in (which I think is just modesty as he knows an inhuman amount of info).
I thought it was a little strange that Watson went on an unstoppable run and then after the commercial break was suddenly wrong a bunch and missed some opportunities to chime in. Wonder if they tweak him?
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02-15-2011, 12:27 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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The performance/watt of the humans is so vastly superior to Watson it's unbelievable.
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02-15-2011, 12:43 PM
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Wucka Wocka Wacka
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How does Watson buzz in? Because this is a truly unfair advantage for the computer.
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02-15-2011, 12:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
How does Watson buzz in? Because this is a truly unfair advantage for the computer.
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It's got a mechanical attachment to a standard Jeopardy buzzer. I'm speculating, but it may buzz in by listening to an audio feed of Trebek reading the the question, and then making a determination that it's time to buzz in after so many milliseconds of silence (and whether it's reached the "buzz threshold" for any given answer).
It seemed to be very consistently fast, which irritated the other two players. It looked like at least Jennings was starting to buzz in earlier without fully knowing the question and then using the few seconds answer period to figure it out at last.
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02-15-2011, 02:22 PM
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I think they said it get's sent a text file the same time the contestants hear the clue.
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02-15-2011, 08:38 PM
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Wow, it's pretty amazing to watch Watson go.
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02-15-2011, 09:04 PM
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I only watched the first half but my personal opinion is the only reason Watson can compete with those 2 is because of a advantage in hitting the buzzer. Case and point, Watson cleaned up the easy questions on day 1. Once the hard ones came around his lead disappeared.
Anyways it's doesn't matter, even if Watson wins he's didn't beat Brad or Ken in Jeopardy, once Watson or his succesor are able to process the clues via the audio and visual clues and can beat them then its beat them in Jeopardy.
Right now they're not playing Jeopardy but rather a quiz show designed to showcase a new search(simplifying obviously) algorithm in a game tweaked to provide the computer with as much of an advantage as possible without appearing completely unfair.
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02-15-2011, 09:05 PM
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The other advantage or is that Watson gets a text file when Alex starts to read the question. This allows him to instantly process the search terms whereas Ken and Rutter have to wither read ahead or listen to Trebek. I think Watson should have had to interpet language or read using a camera to truly compete with Humans.
The click advantage that Watson has is very large. Watson rarely misses ringing in on a question that he knows the answer to.
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02-15-2011, 09:13 PM
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I think Watson was messing with the final question....
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02-15-2011, 09:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
The other advantage or is that Watson gets a text file when Alex starts to read the question. This allows him to instantly process the search terms whereas Ken and Rutter have to wither read ahead or listen to Trebek. I think Watson should have had to interpet language or read using a camera to truly compete with Humans.
The click advantage that Watson has is very large. Watson rarely misses ringing in on a question that he knows the answer to.
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Regular Jeopardy players have a screen on their console where they can read the text of a question in entirely as soon as it's selected, precisely so they don't have to wait for Trebek to say it out loud. Watson is getting exactly the same information a normal player would, only it's behaviour is that of a deaf player who speed reads.
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02-15-2011, 09:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob
Regular Jeopardy players have a screen on their console where they can read the text of a question in entirely as soon as it's selected, precisely so they don't have to wait for Trebek to say it out loud. Watson is getting exactly the same information a normal player would, only it's behaviour is that of a deaf player who speed reads.
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Watson is getting the entire question instantly. Either Jennings needs to get the question injected into his brain or Watson needs to read it using his senses for it to truly beat a human at jeoprody.
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