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We are doomed: IBM's Watson debuts on Jeopardy today (14 Feb 2011)

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zridling:
I welcome our computational overlords. If you read this before it airs, tape Jeopardy today. IBM eviscerates the humanoids, and frankly, the SOB sounds a lot like that Hal 9000 fellow.



The story
http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/14/its-showtime-ibms-watson-to-make-history-with-jeopardy-performance-today/

Game show footage:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/13/watch-the-watson-computer-kick-jeopardys-ass-video/
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jaden:
The article from January made it sound like Watson demolished them, but that's not the case.  Ken and Watson were tied at $3400 and the question was Harold and the blank crayon.  Any child knows the answer, but Watson buzzed in first and got the $1000, making it seem like he had won handily.  It was more of a win for Watson's buzzing mechanism than anything else.  People want to claim that AI has evolved beyond humanity's powers, but it's still a stretch.

I'm still curious to see what happens in the show :)

Stoic Joker:
Ken and Watson were tied at $3400 and the question was Harold and the blank crayon.  Any child knows the answer, but Watson buzzed in first and got the $1000, making it seem like he had won handily.-jaden (February 14, 2011, 04:04 PM)
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Damnit ...I had to watch that whole video, just to find out what color the freaking crayon was.

Purple ...(damn crayon was purple)... I feel better now - Zoiks, that would have bugged me all night!

 :D

Renegade:
Very interesting, Dave.

zridling:
Here's a followup on the first of three days of Watson play:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380351,00.asp

Here's the spreadsheet view:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?hl=en&key=tth_jhM8vyBAuogqHllHmHQ&toomany=true

I loved that avatar. I want that avatar!

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