It really came down to Watson beeing a world class buzzer beater. This speed
test was ofcourse ridiculous in itself.
This is a facile explanation. Sure, if the humans and the Watson were both
ready to buzz in at the earliest legal time, Watson, with nanosecond precision
reflexes,
has the
It's the same thing in other games such as chess.Even a very weak
program can play a move faster than a human. I test my chess program
sometimes at the rate of several games a second in order to get tens of
thousands of games in an hour or two.No human could beat a computer at
that level
For those interested, you can watch the games at:
http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/02/the-watson-episodes-of-jeopardy.html
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:47:27 -0500
From: dailey@gmail.com
To: computer-go@dvandva.org
Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Jeopardy
It's the same thing in other games such as
Since Watson had the huge advantage in reflexes and the two humans
were a couple of the best players in the show's history, the questions
should have been made much harder to tilt the game more toward
knowledge and less toward reflexes. Presumably the knowledge
component is what the IBM team is
Successful human players will time their buzzer pressing to the cadence of
Alex's voice--something Watson cannot do (it does not hear Alex speaking).
There seems to be some debate as to who has the advantage is buzzer pressing:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:00 AM, steve uurtamo uurt...@gmail.com wrote:
i find it quite interesting that all of this speculation is geared
toward saying that something unfair toward humans was happening.
It's not unfair, it's just not interesting. If this is pure Jeopardy test
then the
Humans can and do anticipate the signal - Watson, according to the documents,
waited for the signal, then directed a robot finger to push the buzzer. It
rather evens out.
Terry McIntyre terrymcint...@yahoo.com
Unix/Linux Systems Administration
Taking time to do it right saves having to do
IBM provides a lot of information about Watson on their web site.
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/
The front page of http://www.research.ibm.com/ has several links - I don't see
a
way to provide a link to the article as a whole.
The natural language processing of the questions is
I don't think it was unfair to give Watson the question as text. Good
Jeopardy players don't listen to Alex read the question, they read it
quickly off the screen then spend the time it takes Alex to read the
question thinking about their answer, which is pretty much what Watson
does. Sure,
Le 03/03/2011 13:47, Don Dailey a écrit :
I am rather curious how they designed the software to answer trivia
questions and what the problems were.
see http://lwn.net/Articles/427665/ the last 2 comments (#5 and #6) give
references to the tech part.
Alain
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Colin Kern wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alain Baeckeroot
alain.baecker...@laposte.net wrote:
Le 03/03/2011 13:47, Don Dailey a écrit :
I am rather curious how they designed the software to answer trivia
questions and what the problems
2011/3/3 Petr Baudis pa...@ucw.cz:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Colin Kern wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Alain Baeckeroot
alain.baecker...@laposte.net wrote:
Le 03/03/2011 13:47, Don Dailey a écrit :
I am rather curious how they designed the software to answer
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